After I learned stats, I > looked back and decided I thought Kennedy sucked; don't recall why. (That > doesn't mean I thought it sucked compared to other econometric texts; maybe > they all suck.) >
At first I thought that I was simply math illiterate, but listen to this, from the preface to Fundamentals of Social Statistics by Elifson: "While an undergraduate, I enrolled in the first of many statistics courses. At the time the course frequently left me and my classmates confused and floundering to the extent that we learned little about statistics...The book lacked interesting and relevant examples, omitted computational steps, introduced but did not define new concepts, and seldom presented the relevance or logic of the techniques it purported to teach. I was frequently juggling numbers that were not placed in a meaningful context..." This is from a stats prof! We'll see if he is successful in getting the concepts through my thick skull! . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
