Regression students will appreciate this best-seller's modern, practical approach and its use of real-life problems. The third edition offers a significant shift in emphasis from calculation to interpretation, by replacing computational formulas with computer printouts in SAS. It highlights the role of the computer in contemporary statistics with numerous printouts and exercises that can be solved with the computer. Appropriate for statistics, biostatistics, mathematics, psychology, sociology, business, and industrial engineering students or anyone who intends to use regression analysis in their work, this text offers a traditional structure with a modern flavor. The authors emphasize model development; the intuitive logic and assumptions that underlie the techniques covered as well as the purposes, advantages and disadvantages, and valid interpretations of those techniques.
This was possibly one of the worst written statistics books ever. Not that I'm an expert, but for $200 I expected a little more. Equations were thrown in and there was a serious expectation of math skill for a book designed for(?) and used in a class where the most background the majority of people had was in Intro to Biostatistics. I've heard that I'll get my investment back with re-reading this book over the years while I work on my dissertation. We'll see, we'll see....