Success at Statistics

A Worktext with Humor (Fourth Edition)

• This comprehensive text covers all the traditional topics in a first-semester course.
• Divided into 62 short sections, this book makes the topics easy to digest. Students regularly get positive reinforcement as they check their mastery with exercises at the end of each section.
• Each exercise is based on a humorous riddle. If the answer to a riddle makes sense, students know all their answers for that exercise are correct. If not, they know they need to check their answers.
• Short sections make it easy to customize your course by assigning only those sections needed to fulfill your objectives.
• A comprehensive basic math review at the end of this book may be used to help students whose math skills are rusty.
• Thoroughly field-tested for student interest and comprehension. The short sections and humor-based, self-checking riddles are greatly appreciated by students.
• New to this edition: This edition contains a new part (Part D) on effect size, which provides technical solutions to issues raised in Part C (such as the limitations of inferential statistics).
 

A sample of professors' reactions:

"Success at Statistics provides an innovative approach to mastering statistical skills. This reader-friendly text is surprisingly comprehensive and is organized in a logical and effective way. Technical material is uniquely reinforced with humorous, self-checking worksheets that reduce the intimidation of statistics, build confidence, and enhance important analytical skills. For those who have been away from mathematics, the text also provides a supplemental section that allows for the review and reinforcement of basic math skills. I enjoyed teaching with this text and my students enjoyed it as well. I would thoroughly recommend it for both the undergraduate and graduate levels."
    — Alexander Franco, Southern Illinois University

"This text, in contrast with any other on a technical subject that I have used in over 20 years of teaching, is actually wildly popular with my students. Pyrczak clearly has a rare gift for making intimidating material approachable."
    — Greg Richardson, Shorter College

"This is a wonderfully clear, cogent, and fun coverage of basic descriptive and inferential statistics."
    — Carla W. Hess, University of North Dakota

"This book is excellent. The material is presented clearly, and students’ retention has increased considerably. The humorous approach has changed their mind-set about statistics."
    — Cathleen Shultz, Harding University

"I found it to be exactly how it is billed. It is interesting, humorous, and easy to read and use."
    — Virgil L. Franklin, Virginia State University

"A very original and effective approach to a difficult topic — well written and presented."
    — Greg Warchol, Bemidji State University

“I like the modular approach. It helps the students focus on the most important points. The riddles give students immediate feedback on what they have learned, thereby increasing their confidence in their knowledge of the material.”
    — Jeffrey D. Elliot, Villa Julie College

“Students like the book and find it the easiest, least painful method of learning statistics they have ever encountered.”
    — Wendy Folger, Central Michigan University

 

If you are looking for a statistics textbook that your students will enjoy, this is it!

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