E-Z Statistics: Ace Statistics the E-Z Way

by Douglas Downing, Jeffrey Clark

Known for many years as Barron’s Easy Way Series, the new editions of these popular self-teaching titles are now Barron’s E-Z Series. Brand-new cover designs reflect all new page layouts, which feature extensive two-color treatment, a fresh, modern typeface, and more graphic material than ever— charts, graphs, diagrams, instructive line illustrations, and where appropriate, amusing cartoons. Meanwhile, the quality of the books’ contents remains at least as high as ever. Barron’s E-Z books are self-help manuals focused to improve students’ grades in a wide variety of academic and practical subjects. For most subjects, the level of difficulty ranges between high school and college-101 standards. Although primarily designed as self-teaching manuals, these books are also preferred by many teachers as classroom supplements—and for some courses, as main textbooks. E-Z books review their subjects in detail, and feature both short quizzes and longer tests with answers to help students gauge their learning progress. Subject heads and key phrases are set in a second color as an easy reference aid.

Barron’s E-Z Statistics presents easy-to-understand explanations of probability, random variables, distributions, laws of large numbers and the central limit theorem, polls and sampling, linear regression, and much more. Hundreds of exercises with selected answers.

416 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2009

About the author

Douglas Downing is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Seattle Pacific University, where he taught from 1983 to 2018. He holds a BS and a PhD in economics from Yale University. At SPU, he taught economics, quantitative methods, astronomy, and globalization. Dr. Downing also served in various leadership roles and authored 15 books, including a trilogy of math adventure novels. His 2015 book, Freedom, Opportunity, and Security, explores the relationship between economic policy and the political system.

Reviews

[Tracy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Rating for hatred of math not for content.

[Abdullah Alshaya · Rating 4 out of 5]

A nice book for probability and statistics introduction. It is mainly discuss the main theorem and laws for probability and its application in the life. A brief discussion of the statistics and its application is also has been introduced and explained in details.

[Jeff La Marca]

non-fiction,statistics

[Shelly · Rating 1 out of 5]

I did not think this was a very good statistics text. I ended up switching to a much better one about halfway through. The explanations were not very clear, and I didn't like the format.

[Quint · Rating 2 out of 5]

it's a so so book. good stats books are hard to find as statisticians like to talk to themselves and this book is no exception.