Introduction to Probability and Statistics, 3rd Edition by S. Ejaz Mendenhall, William; Beaver, Robert J.; Beaver, Barbara M.; Ahmed (PDF)

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INTRODUCTION TO PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS is one of the first texts published by Duxbury and has been blending innovation with tradition for over thirty years. It was the first statistics text to include case studies in it, and now in the eleventh edition, this text is the first to include java applets in the body of the text. It has been used by hundreds of thousands of students since its first edition. This new edition retains the excellent examples, exercises and exposition that have made it a market leader, and builds upon this tradition of excellence with new technology integration.

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Editorial Reviews: Review “This edition represents a significant improvement and modernization of a text which was already the best of its kind. The authors have done a wonderful job, particularly with integrating a computerized statistical tool. I commend them.””I always felt comfortable with the examples used in the textbook because they are usually real-life data. . . .The Tenth Edition brought a welcome change by adding a few ‘feel-at-home’ type of problems, which help students’ understanding of the concepts they are about to learn at first. This is a great idea. I believe in using examples whose contents are familiar (easy to understand) to students so that they can relate themselves to the problem at hand. . . . I would adopt the textbook upon completion.” –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. About the Author Ph.D., University of Florida –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐We all know how it goes:You get lost in Stats class because A) your professor isn’t communicating well, B) your professor is smart but his accent is unintelligible or C) you missed the previous day to do an observation for one of your major courses……so you crack open the way-overpriced textbook to catch up, right?Wrong! At least not with this awful one.Almost everyone in my class (including the professor’s other sections) failed both midterms and nearly failed the final exams. Now, I don’t have a problem with not stopping for questions in class as long as I can catch up while studying on my own… but it was damned near IMPOSSIBLE with this textbook.I don’t know what Mendenhall and the Beavers are smoking out at UC Riverside (which happened to by our professor’s alma mater), but so many of the examples given in each section wouldn’t make sense, were completely different, were not preceded by actual instructions or paragraphs explaining what you were about to do. Talk about being thrown to the wolves with no explanations!Some of the applets on the CD were interesting (playing with graph results, etc) but unnecessary. I would rather have cut the CD out of the book and had more pages of INSTRUCTIONS!We all know textbooks are overpriced, but this was one of the only times where I genuinely felt like I had wasted my money.If your professor requires this book, BEWARE! You had better show up to every class meeting, take meticulous notes, and ask lots of questions… because this book will be of NO help to you.

⭐I purchased textbook because it was required by my Biostatistics professor in my graduate program. Personally, I do not like the book. It makes problems more complicated than they need to be. I feel a good textbook is one in which you can read on your own and basically understand it without a whole lot of instruction and review by your professor. It would be very difficult to just read this textbook and then take an exam. I have only had the book for several weeks and I think it makes Biostats more complicated. I did purchase the supplement that goes with it, which is good for practice and the CD allows you to take self-test. If you are not savvy in stats, purchasing the supplemental practice book may be the thing for you to do if your professor requires use of the textbook.

⭐Excellent

⭐My sister is in school right now and she needed this book asap. Bought it, arrived in time, and sent it to her. I don’t think she likes it cause she hates statistics but I don’t think its all completely the book’s fault :).

⭐Author: Computer Science/Mathematics Undergraduate at Cameron UniversityThis book was required for an introductory non-calculus based statistics course at my school and it turned out to be a mixed bag. The theories are explained well in most cases but the book doesn’t have enough examples for all of the theorems. Many times only one case is explained in dynamic situations leaving this reader more than a little lost. Usually the theorems are explained well enough that this is not a big deal, but not so in every case. So there tends to be those points where the student may get a little stuck without assistance from their professor.Another problem I found was that the book was a little bit dumbed down in many areas. This book uses no calculus, so the theories are presented often without the mathematical rigor required to properly formulate accurate results. The book still presents the theorems and formulas in a way where the student can get something out of this without calculus, but it becomes a problem later in the book in the sections on regression. For a non-calculus based class like the one I took, this is all unavoidable, so the book handled the situation well considering the constraints.This book presents a very light introduction to statistics and is good prep for more advanced statistics courses, but as a stand-alone only the most basic material is presented since it is non-calculus based and the material is spread thin between combinatorics, probability, binomial distributions, normal distributions, t distributions, ANOVA tests, regression, non-parametric statistics, etc… To attain a significant amount of useful knowledge you really need to buy separate books tackling each of these subjects independantly, so this book is really unneccessary even for an introductory text but might serve well the student who needs to be eased into statistics lightly or just wants a brief overview of the subject.

⭐This was the required text for my Introduction to Probability and Statistics course. The course was a required pre-requisite for the bachelor of science nursing program. The intended membership of the course was non-math majors, ie nursing and business majors. The book was very difficult to use. There were not enough example problems nor are there enough simple english explanations. In my course evaluation at the end of the term I emphatically stated the department needed to find a new text for the course. I was very happy to sell it back. The study guide is not worth the money either. Every other odd problem is not enough to learn from.

⭐First, I cant believe that people actually used this book in a graduate class. I taught out of this book to freshmen.A lot of the notation in this book is horrible and I feel this makes it harder for people new to the subject to read. Also there are very few exercises for the students to practice. In addition, too many of the answers in the back of the book are incorrect (this really confuses students).I will not be teaching out of this book again.

⭐The text we used for our undergrad Stats class covered the exact same material as this text, which we used for a graduate level class and which cost about 60 bucks more, but the undergrad text was written more clearly, concisely and logically. We even found a mistake in one of the tables in the back of this book.

⭐Very good condition.

⭐I’m using this book right now. I love the condition

⭐The book was in bad condition; pages dirty and smudged like it was an used book, and not new.

⭐I received the book on time and its condition is too good.

⭐Pour l’université

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