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posted by Neil J. Salkind at 6:14 PM
4 Comments:
Dr. Salkind
I am an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and teach most of the stat and research courses in our department. I just discovered your book and I love it. You are a gifted writer and scholar, and clearly respect your students. Most stat book authors write "down" to the student and treat statistice as some form of secret society that only the greatest minds can enter. Your book is engaging, funny and anxiety reducing.
Congrats.I will adopt it for all my stat courses.
Jim Monahan, Ph.D.
University of New Haven
10:54 AM
Hello, everyone, and Prof. Salkind.
I've ordered the Excel Edition of the Statistics for People book for my Intro to Research class. Unfortunately, Micro
soft has issued its latest version of Excel, which does not support the statistics add-in package. There is no work as to when they will remedy this "oversight," if that is what it was.
Does anyone know of a work-around for this? Several students have already purchased the book, as have I, in the rush to get my syllabus ready.
I wonder if the "Excel" component of Open Office might work ...
-Dennis Sayers
Dir, Interdisciplinary Studies Masters
11:02 AM
Hello,
Although your book is quite helpful to me (no previous experience with stats, taking graduate level education research course), I am encountering difficulty due to mistake(s). For example your quiz for chapter 2, question 3 lists the mean as 19, when in fact it is 16.28. I checked it using Excell. Trying to master statistics on my own is difficult enough without encountering mistakes in the text/website! Please edit carefully!
Sarah Ball
10:17 PM
I am studying for my educational comprehensive doctorate exam. I have been studying feaverishly. I will let you know how I do. I notice that in your quiz section of your book, Stat for People, Ch9 question 4. You have the same symbol for Type 1 and Type II errors which is alpha. Shouldn't it be Type 1 alpha and Type II beta. Let me know. Also, if you have any additonal quizes I could take let me know.
10:26 AM
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