Gregory J. Privitera

This is the textbook assigned for my son's statistics class, and... it's a textbook. I'm a mechanical engineer, with math up to intermediate partial differential equations under my belt and I told him there's a reason I've never taken a statistics class, but I was curious. I admit I didn't work all of the problems - enough to check (and find some errors - a computational; formula for variance is correct in the text, but wrong in the problem (but correct in the answer, go figure). And this is the 13th edition.

Bottom line, this is serviceable if you have to use this stuff. And really, only academics will. And just because the title says it's for behavioral sciences, that's just because of the way the problems are cast that way. Models don't apply to individuals, rather groups at best. This is base level statistics and I'm still glad I never had to take a class in it.… (mehr)