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Michael Sullivan (2) (1942–)

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Michael Sullivan (2) via een alias veranderd in Michael Sullivan III.

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Precalculus (1988) 208 exemplaren
Algebra and Trigonometry (1983) 152 exemplaren
College Algebra (1987) 115 exemplaren
Trigonometry (1988) 52 exemplaren
Fundamentals of Statistics (1994) 49 exemplaren
Algebra Review (1996) 27 exemplaren
Intermediate Algebra (2006) 24 exemplaren
Calculus for the AP® Course (2016) 7 exemplaren
Calculus (2014) 6 exemplaren
Student Solutions Manual (2000) 3 exemplaren
Statistics (2003) 1 exemplaar
Sm College Algebra Enhanced Gr (2000) 1 exemplaar

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This book was used as the text for a statistics course I recently took (Statistics 251 for those who are curious), so my thoughts on the book will inevitably be colored by my experiences in that class. To a certain extent, it is impossible to separate the efficacy of the professor from my impressions of the book. Fortunately, the course was quite good and the book was a large part of making it so.

Fundamentals of Statistics covers the basics of statistics starting with sampling methods and ranging through to inferential tests such as tests of independence, homogeneity tests, and least-squares regression models. Each topic is covered in a straightforward step-by-step approach - each concept is broken down into relatively bite-sized chunks, each portion is explained and then followed by a couple of examples illustrating the subject in use. Finally, each segment is followed by a generous helping of exercise problems in which the reader can apply the concepts that had just been taught.

The writing in the book is clear and direct, which is what one should expect from a good textbook. The examples given are varied in subject matter, and often reasonably interesting. This is an improvement on some other statistics textbooks that I have come across in which the bulk of the examples involved drawing different colored marbles from a jar. Like the examples, the exercises are varied and interesting, and are quite effective at illuminating the concepts being discussed. The book also comes with a CD that has a number of preloaded sets of data for use with Minitab that tie to a number of exercises in the book.

Overall, Fundamentals of Statistics is a very good text for a beginning statistics student. It covers the basic mechanics of statistics quite well and presents them in a clear and effective manner. While it is difficult to make a textbook on statistics truly interesting, this book does about as good a job a one could do in that regard.

This review has also been posted to my blog Dreaming About Other Worlds.
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StormRaven | Sep 11, 2011 |
Explains math from the ground up, but does so for the mind of a university student. Lots of examples and questions to practice on. If one has a background in basic logic, it would help in the early stages as one learns all about how math works at a fundamental level.
 
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