Nathan Nellis

Disclaimer: I own the 3rd edition and am deciding to review this book publicly because apparently you can't review the 3rd edition on Google reviews. Only the 2nd edition is available for review as of writing. I bought this book to test out of my statistics class and receive credit for it and found this book to be overkill. For the record, I live in Arizona and this is a 3 credit hour class, 1 semester long. In my opinion, the book is superior to any community college class because of the easy to follow formulas and pace you'll go. I did this book my senior year of high school and did a chapter a week. I recommend starting off at a chapter a week too if you want to earn an A. You might need to supplement with Khan Academy if you intend to self-learn the actual material or get stuck on the probability section. For example, the 3rd edition of this book does not go into great detail of interpreting relative frequency distribution tables until the 5th chapter and even then the book focuses more on the inferential side of statistics. Khan Academy is great for practicing if you need the additional practice which I needed in order to test out with an A. Overall what this book does right is explaining concepts with expertise and using Excel as practice. If you are unfamiliar what the bottom number of Sigma does or any other such concepts, you may need to use Khan Academy or Google.