Statistical Reasoning for Everyday Life

by Jeffrey O. Bennett

This book is intended for use in the statistical literacy course or an introductory statistics course that emphasizes concepts over computation. The goal is to give students a conceptual understanding of statistics and develop their statistical reasoning skills. This text approaches statistics by presenting an overall picture and then providing explanation of the topics in context. Students develop an understanding of statistics that is reinforced in the exercises and web projects, and by doing some computation.

Genres: Textbooks, Mathematics, Reference, School, Nonfiction

529 pages, Paperback

First published October 17, 2000

Reviews

[J. · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was informative on the subject of statistics and provided meaningful examples and interesting facts in its "by the way" sections. I used Joseph Healey's Statistics: A Tool for Social Research for a statistics course years ago, and it would be a perfect alternate to this book, as that text seems to use most of the terms this book calls "alternates" (for example, the Healey text uses the term class interval, but Bennett uses bin primarily, and calls class interval an alternative phrase). My former statistics professor had never heard the term "bin" before.

I don't know what else could be said. It does its job.

[Serge Ter Braake · Rating 5 out of 5]

Recommended reading for any student. Basic principles of statistics are explained very well and will be an equally useful introduction for computer scientists, chemists, historians, sociologists, et cetera.

[Hannah · Rating 4 out of 5]

This textbook is really simple and easy to understand. I love the little fun facts in every chapter. t makes reading the next section, not much of a chore when yu have little interesting facts to look forward to. Without my teacher thoug, I believe that I would not have a clear understanding of all the concepts in the book. The teacher cleared up a few issues that I personally had some trouble with. Without my teacher, I would not have understood everything. It would have also helped if the download cd came with instructions, because I was at a lose with how to download it. I tried, but nothing was really working. So, I just used the computers on campus for the practical applications.

[Anna · Rating 4 out of 5]

I still only vaguely understand statistics but at least the book was mostly interesting.

[Latasha · Rating 3 out of 5]

Math sucks. The online homework/quiz program was great though.

[David McClendon, Sr · Rating 5 out of 5]

As far as statistics textbooks go, this is a good one. It helps to make sense of some fairly difficult concepts.

[Stephanie Apicella]

I passed the class that is all that matters