Making Sense of Statistics: A Conceptual Overview

Book is in great condition but it is written in it too much. It will do great for class.

The critical reviews of this book all note its shortcomings, but without understanding its purpose. This is not a stand-alone statistics text. If you try to use it as such, all the criticisms of other reviewers are applicable. This is a supplemental book, designed to be used alongside a statistics text. That is why it has no equations--those are already found in a stats text. This book is a useful addition to stats texts for students who find the formulas overwhelming, and for those cases where the texts do not explain the concepts intuitively. The latter is precisely what this book provides--intuitive explanations for the mathematical concepts behind statistics. It is not a perfect book, which is why I can't give it a full five stars. But it is quite useful for its particular purpose, and the critics either have inadvertantly not recognized that purpose or, being math snobs with no patience for the less mathematically adept, they have intentionally (but wrongly) disdained that purpose. In summary, this book is useful for those who need to take statistics but are not wholly comfortable with math.

expensive for a paperback but I guess it is in high demand. Book was in very good shape. Shipping was average in speed.

was received in a timely manner in very good condition