Exam Preparation

Over the years, Barron's popular and widely-used Easy Way books have proven themselves to be accessible self-teaching manuals. Math the Easy Way includes instruction and review in whole numbers, fractions, percentages, as well as introductions to algebra and statistics. You will also find a diagnostic test and an end-of-book practice test with answers.

This textbook provides an introduction to statistics. It covers describing, exploring, and comparing data, probability, probability distributions, normal probability distributions, estimates and sample sizes, hypothesis testing, correlation and regression and statistical process control. Assuming only a knowledge of algebra, it builds a strong foundation of conceptual and procedural understanding of statistics.

This book remains relevant as a wake-up call for people unaccustomed to examining numbers. A simple read that serves to quickly introduce you to the moral underpinnings tied to the use of statistics.

Using playful headings to encourage students to read further, the book begins with an introduction to the "language" of statistics, and then covers descriptive statistics (from computing measures of central tendency to distributions and curve plotting to graphing data) and inferential statistics (including probability, statistical significance, correlation/regression, ANOVA, and multiple regression).

The Cartoon Guide to Statistics covers all the central ideas of modern statistics: the summary and display of data, probability in gambling and medicine, random variables, Bernoulli Trails, the Central Limit Theorem, hypothesis testing, confidence interval estimation, and much more—all explained in simple, clear, funny illustrations.