This is the 11th edition (2011) paperback copy of Statistics for Business Students and Economics by James T. McClave (Author), P. George Benson (Author), and Terry Sincich (Author).
I'm not a data scientist or statistician but have had to study and apply statistical thinking and methods in four academic programs and, occasionally, during my IT career. Over all, I have 6 undergrad and 17 graduate hours of statistics and probability courses--enough to have been a masters degree if they'd been in one program. Despite that, numerate thinking is not natural to me and I have to look up which methods and tests are relevant for each data-related situation, how to apply them, and what their results mean. Having a well-organized, comprehensive, exhaustively tagged (by me) reference saved me untold hours in both academic and applied settings. I doubt I will need it now, in my post-IT life, but this book has become my statistical go-to resource so I will hang onto it. If nothing more, it will make an excellent doorstop, paperweight, or--in a pinch--blunt-force weapon.
This book is quite old but classy. As a text book for business statistics, I think it is very clear. If I have to criticize it for something, I think it is too simple and shallow for sophisticated scholars.
I developed a keen interest in this book when assisting a learner with a task in mathematics of Finance. Of course maths in finance is all about the application of statistics, especially when dealing data's probability distributions and random variables. The book is well-written. The researcher shows his proficiency in statistics. His mastery of theories and application of statistics in economics was instrumental in enabling offer the best statistics homework help. It was also vital in boosting my knowledge of key statistical principles and applications. I will rate it 4 stars because I believe there are some gaps in elaborations and exemplifications. But it is a very crucial book.
Read it so I could help my friend with his statistics course (I had last took mine in 2009/2010?) and I needed a refresher for a few topics before I could break it down. It was a pretty decent book, though the one I used for undergrad was slightly better (maybe because my professor wrote the book so it clicked in combination with his lectures).
This textbook made it super easy for me to grasp the concepts! This was my third statistics class that I’ve taken, but it had been six years since my last class.
Unfortunately, the last two regression chapters lost me and made me want to curl into a ball and cry.