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Title: Poor Guide
Review: I purchased this book on the recommendation of my statistics professor. It was intended as a supplementary text to help out with the class. It starts out with some basic concepts and explains them enough to understand. The cartoons are cute, and there is not so much info on each page that it takes intensive reading. However, there is not much explanation or background material either, so I can't imagine a statistics newbie getting much after the first few chapters. I am grasping all the concepts in class very well, but when I read the Cartoon Guide to Statistics I am lost! As someone with a pretty good mind for math and logic, I don't understand how others get much out of this book unless they are already familiar with the concepts.The book itself is nicely done - good illustrations, easy to handle size. But I cannot recommend it. In fact, I would like to sell my half-read version!
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