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Review title: Not a good book (especially for the price!)
Product review: I'm teaching a basic stats class out of this book, and I find it to be pretty bad. I don't mind the fact that the author tried to water some things down. It is an introductory text, after all. I mind that he watered it down too much, however. Some basic key ideas are completely missing (for example, when discussing probability, he skips defining a sample space.) Some of the exercises and examples were also worded fairly poorly. I would also like to see some more computational examples throughout the text.In the end, I suppose the text is serviceable if the instructor is willing to supplement some material. In fact, supplementation is essential if you don't want to burn through this text in half a semester.
