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Review title: Another badly written statistics book
Product review: For professors who have seen this material over and over again, it might be reliable.But for students wishing to learn the material this book is garbage. The author doesn't bother to explain anything, and the examples given are few in number and extremely narrow in focus. Exercise problems have little or no relevance to the chapters they belong to, and often other books or sources are required just to decipher the meaning of the questions or to borrow intuition from to solve them. Prose is extremely terse, ineffective, and incomplete. It seems as though the author just didn't care enough to make the book readable or usable. Goldberg makes the reader have to work excessively hard to gain any kind of interesting or important information. This book appears to just be another example of a badly written book in an entire field of badly written material.
