The Cartoon Guide to Statistics, Third Edition: New York, 1964

Wellington: Otimo livro, chegou bem antes da data prevista

Brazil on Nov 19, 2023

Leanna M Lynch: Statistics is a math language that can been difficult wrap your brain around. I wish I had this book when I took my undergrad Statistics class because I think it does a great job of breaking it down into digestible chunks. Unfortunately it doesn't cover what I'm working on for a Grad level class so I will be returning it. Still gets the stars because I think it's worth the purchase for those struggling to understand this material.

United States on Oct 30, 2023

Yogesh: If you really want to Learn Statistics in as easy manner as possible, please keep searching, this is not at all the Book you are dreaming, that will solve all your Statistical learning problems. This is just like any other Book available in THe market. It has topics but the way those have been explained are really tough (means not for beginners at all.)

India on Oct 16, 2023

Carlos Rodríguez: Great book to learn the very basics of statistics. It includes great examples and explanations that make the book really easy to understand for a beginner.

Spain on Feb 09, 2023

Don: An excellent introduction to all the core concepts of statistics. Better than my MBA statistics class. I heartily recommend Cartoon Guide to Statistics.

Actually, however, the reader needs some background in a number of areas to really appreciate and fully understand the concepts introduced.

Cartoon Guide to Statistics--already super excellent--could be 100% improved with more examples for each units and also actual problems to solve. The problems should have solutions with the approach--specific steps used and explained--to get to the solutions.

Again, as is, an excellent introduction to the core concepts of statistics.

United Kingdom on Sep 26, 2022

Jodi C. Beck: I already have a good knowledge of statistics but got this to as a general reference, since it is more succinct than many other stats books.

For actually learning, I think this book is good if you struggle with basic concepts like standard deviations, z-scores and dice roll probabilities. If you are taking your first stats class in college, this book by itself would maybe get you to a B (depending on the teacher). The material ends at linear regression, and doesn't say much more about it that isn't obvious, so I don't think this will teach you any techniques that would actually be useful in the real world. It will however give you part of a foundation for learning those.

I think the book falls into the common trap of similar books that try to make complicated concepts accessible. It spends way too much time overexplaining the easy parts of the subject, which is probably already not hard for most people. The middling material is not given as much attention, so is not that much easier. However I feel that stats textbooks often have a particularly bad habit of overcomplicating simple things, so relative to those this one is quite good. It will only put you to sleep a...

United States on Jul 15, 2020

A. Bracewell: I'm in love with this book and I feel like it was written with me in mind, so if your math background and goals are anything like mine, I can't recommend it enough.

So, here's my deal: I'm a med student and am about to start a bio statistics course. I wanted to brush up on stat ahead of time over spring break, but I knew I'd never bring myself to read a serious stat book on the beach (especially having ADD). I've never taken a stat course, but my math education got as far as calculus many years ago, and I teach SAT math so I'm not too rusty on algebra. I'm also a general-purpose science nerd and feel pretty comfortable with the fundamentals of probability.

Most of the chapters started out reviewing things I already knew - for example, one of the first chapters goes over the definitions of mean and median and how to calculate them - none of which was news to me. (Ironically, even though the author probably ought to include such basic concepts for the sake of completeness, anyone who doesn't already understand how to calculate an average is probably going to find this book too advanced). But the chapter then went on to explain how to calculate standard deviations and...

United States on Mar 26, 2009

Marshall Lord: I got hold of this book because I was looking for a textbook I could recommend to colleauges who needed to boost their stats knowledge but who were definately not expert statisticians. I thought that the more amusing presentation might hold the interest of non-mathematicians better than most textbooks.

It's aimed at the kind of reader who needs to use statistics but has the attitude to them which one of my colleagues at an Economics department meeting at University once parodied by saying of the title of a stats course, "That'll sound to most students like 'Come and stick your hand in a bowl of piranha fish!'"

Well, this book does cover the material in an entertaining way, and the cartoons are both relevant and amusing.

But don't imagine that this will make statistics easy. It's a reasonably good presentation of the principles of statistical analysis, put together in a humorous way. My colleagues did find it easier to pick up and read. In that sense I would guardedly describe this as a success and I'd give it four stars.

While the book does make it easier to make the effort to apply yourself to the subject, it does not magically eliminate any...

United Kingdom on Jul 28, 2008