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As a student (non statistics major) I agree with b...

2009-12-08T09:59:07.984-08:00

As a student (non statistics major) I agree with both Professor Shmueli and William. I agree with Shmueli that the goal of an introductory statistics course should not be to familiarize students with buzzwords in statistic but instead to show students how statistics can be useful in real life situations. With that said, I feel that the most useful textbook for a non statistics major should be

Fromm RSS News January 2008, in response to a lett...

2009-06-10T12:29:55.253-07:00

Fromm RSS News January 2008, in response to a letter by Steven Senn published in December 2007

I entered the Huxley building at Imperial College, as a mathematics undergraduate, in 1974. Our instructor in Introduction to Statistics was D R Cox. By the third year, Professor David Cox was running the exercise class, with junior instructors teaching the advanced courses such as Design of

Hi Galit. I still feel partial to a text because o...

2009-03-09T23:03:00.000-07:00

Hi Galit. I still feel partial to a text because of the continuity that the writer must maintain in terms of terminology and progress from one topic to another topic which depends on the first topic. Of course the web is there as well to use but as a base I think a text is very important. I don't have experience on how well students can learn by looking up serious mathematical concepts on the web

Hi William - thanks for your comment. Let me respo...

2009-03-09T22:56:14.255-07:00

Hi William - thanks for your comment. Let me respond to two points in particular. First, I believe that students who want to learn about new topics in statistics would most likely search the information on the web (Googling is faster than even finding that old textbook). There is also a growing number of books that are available for browsing online (free: Google Books, Amazon's look-inside). So I

Hi. I agree that examples or case must be included...

2009-03-09T19:11:00.000-07:00

Hi. I agree that examples or case must be included. However, I feel that my goal in teaching Statistics is to make the text readable to the students. It is impossible to cover all the material and case studies. I want to break down the barrier that exists when trying to read a technical book. Make that book accessible to the students so that after they are finished with the course they feel