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Introduction to Probability and Statistics: Principles and Applications for Engineering and the Computing Sciences
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Author: J. Susan Milton, Jesse C. Arnold
List Price: $134.90
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ISBN: 007246836X
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math (30 September, 2002)
Edition: Hardcover
Sales Rank: 1,336,981
Average Customer Rating: 2 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 1 out of 5
This is the worst text I have ever used
I am a dean's list mathematics major and I couldn't follow this text at all. This is true because the book is poorly written in a very bland voice, the few examples are often difficult with little or nothing to do with common problems you will encounter, and as a whole, this book seems to assume that all of its readers have a solid background in statistics; the problem with that is this is used in introductory courses. Everything I learned in the class for which this text was required was from lectures, and I normally learn extremely well from text books. If you take a course that requires this text, either try to find another book or run (don't walk) to the good old drop and add department!
Rating: 1 out of 5
This is the worst text I have ever used
I have always loved learning from books, especially math and science books, but this book is impossible. I am a math major with a previous course in statistics and the best use I have found for this text is to set my calculator on it. The examples and exercises are so wordy and written so poorly I have gained nothing from them. I actually think I'm a little dumber after I read from it. This book is written for a reader with an advanced background in statistics and even there, I think those readers would be wise to shop around. I strongly discourage anyone planning on using this book from doing so, just let me sell mine first!
Rating: 1 out of 5
This book made me hate statistics.
I'm a math/computer science major taking a stat course at virginia tech and the professor is using this horrible book. Reading it is pure drudgery. It is bland, boring, wordy, and hideously difficult to extract any real information from. It seems to assume the student already knows everything about statistics, as it's examples and explanations are so convoluted, lengthy, and conceptually incoherent that any attempt to follow them is a waste of time. The exercises (at least the ones my professor assigns) infallibly require a ridiculous amount of numerical computation that takes forever to enter by hand, like finding the mean of 60-80 sample points. This book made me hate statistics which is a shame because it is a beautiful and highly applicable field. If you are forced to use this text then do whatever you can to learn the material from an outside source, be it another text, a friend, the internet, anything but the book.
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