Introductory Statistics
The text covers some of the areas needed for an Introduction to Statistics or Elementary Statistics. For example, experimental design was not well covered in chapter 1 which introduction to Statistics. Both the table of content and index was missing in this text, which makes it hard to know exactly what page you have to go and read the topic you want to. Lastly there was no set of instruction teaching students how to use technology to perform some of these computations.
I found the contents in the book to accurate and unbiased. I didn’t find any errors or inaccuracies.
Because of the well-structured contents in the textbook, it will be very easy to update it or make changes at any point in time. The content in textbook is up to date.
The clarity in the book was very good for an intro to statistics course. The textbook is easily readable and the graphics are not bad at all. The language in the book is easily understandable. I found most instructions in the book to be very detailed and clear for students to follow.
The contents in the book is very consistent from beginning to the end. The contents in the book are well structured and well organized for each unit.
The text is well sectioned into parts for students to read and understand. This textbook is highly modular, such that instructors combine or use different sections to teach the class and the students will still understand the material at a higher level.
The textbook is well structured and well organized
The interface of the book is very good, however the graphics could have been improved by adding some good images and diagrams. There was no table of contents or index in the pdf version of the book. You can only see the table of contents through online, which would be a very hard to navigate to the appropriate chapters and sections in the book.
No grammatical errors were found.
I did not find any offensive cultural language in the textbook.
On the whole, the textbook would be a very good book to use for an introduction to statistics class or elementary statistics, however I would recommend the authors adding an in-depth experimental design contents to Chapter 1. Secondly I would recommend the authors to add a table of content and an index to the textbook.