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The Statistical Sleuth is a great textbook for teaching regression formerly published by Duxbury, but the book was purchased by Cengage, which engages in price gauging.  When I used the Statistical Sleuth (2nd edition) as a student, it cost about $100 or perhaps less.  Now, Cengage is charging $309 (not a typo!) for the same edition of the textbook, even though it's 13 years old.  They have come out with a 3rd edition that costs $266.  Obviously, used copies are less, but I can't guarantee used copies are always available at reasonable prices. 

I would like to find a similar textbook whose publisher does not engage in abusive price gauging. 

Can anyone recommend such a textbook?

Janet

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Janet Rosenbaum
SUNY Brooklyn
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By the way, currently I use Gelman/Hill, and I really like it, but some students find it too advanced. 

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Janet Rosenbaum
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Original Message:
Sent: 02-21-2015 09:59
From: Janet Rosenbaum
Subject: Non-abusive alternatives to Statistical Sleuth

The Statistical Sleuth is a great textbook for teaching regression formerly published by Duxbury, but the book was purchased by Cengage, which engages in price gauging.  When I used the Statistical Sleuth (2nd edition) as a student, it cost about $100 or perhaps less.  Now, Cengage is charging $309 (not a typo!) for the same edition of the textbook, even though it's 13 years old.  They have come out with a 3rd edition that costs $266.  Obviously, used copies are less, but I can't guarantee used copies are always available at reasonable prices. 

I would like to find a similar textbook whose publisher does not engage in abusive price gauging. 

Can anyone recommend such a textbook?

Janet

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Janet Rosenbaum
SUNY Brooklyn
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Hello Dr. Rosenbaum,

I would recommend Classical and Modern Regression with Applications by Raymond Myers. It is not exactly cheap but it is not (currently) priced as offensively as the text you mentioned.

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Robert O'Brien
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Original Message:
Sent: 02-21-2015 09:59
From: Janet Rosenbaum
Subject: Non-abusive alternatives to Statistical Sleuth

The Statistical Sleuth is a great textbook for teaching regression formerly published by Duxbury, but the book was purchased by Cengage, which engages in price gauging.  When I used the Statistical Sleuth (2nd edition) as a student, it cost about $100 or perhaps less.  Now, Cengage is charging $309 (not a typo!) for the same edition of the textbook, even though it's 13 years old.  They have come out with a 3rd edition that costs $266.  Obviously, used copies are less, but I can't guarantee used copies are always available at reasonable prices. 

I would like to find a similar textbook whose publisher does not engage in abusive price gauging. 

Can anyone recommend such a textbook?

Janet

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Janet Rosenbaum
SUNY Brooklyn
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Draper & Smith, Applied Regression Analysis, Wiley, 1998 is quite thorough but does require a bit of math background. ------------------------------------------- C. Dayton -------------------------------------------
Original Message: Sent: 02-23-2015 09:48 From: Robert O'Brien Subject: Non-abusive alternatives to Statistical Sleuth Hello Dr. Rosenbaum, I would recommend Classical and Modern Regression with Applications by Raymond Myers. It is not exactly cheap but it is not (currently) priced as offensively as the text you mentioned. ------------------------------------------- Robert O'Brien -------------------------------------------
Original Message: Sent: 02-21-2015 09:59 From: Janet Rosenbaum Subject: Non-abusive alternatives to Statistical Sleuth The Statistical Sleuth is a great textbook for teaching regression formerly published by Duxbury, but the book was purchased by Cengage, which engages in price gauging. When I used the Statistical Sleuth (2nd edition) as a student, it cost about $100 or perhaps less. Now, Cengage is charging $309 (not a typo!) for the same edition of the textbook, even though it's 13 years old. They have come out with a 3rd edition that costs $266. Obviously, used copies are less, but I can't guarantee used copies are always available at reasonable prices. I would like to find a similar textbook whose publisher does not engage in abusive price gauging. Can anyone recommend such a textbook? Janet ------------------------------------------- Janet Rosenbaum SUNY Brooklyn -------------------------------------------

The high cost of textbooks has serious negative consequences for many of our students. While I don't have any specific recommendations for a regression textbook, I do know about some resources for finding open source textbooks.

Here are some of the open textbooks in math and statistics available: http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/SearchResults.aspx?subjectAreaId=7

This link provides lots of resources and motivation for finding open source textbooks: http://guides.lib.vt.edu/oer

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Eric Vance
Virginia Tech-Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis (LISA)
Director and Associate Research Professor
Blacksburg VA, United States
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Original Message:
Sent: 02-21-2015 09:59
From: Janet Rosenbaum
Subject: Non-abusive alternatives to Statistical Sleuth

The Statistical Sleuth is a great textbook for teaching regression formerly published by Duxbury, but the book was purchased by Cengage, which engages in price gauging.  When I used the Statistical Sleuth (2nd edition) as a student, it cost about $100 or perhaps less.  Now, Cengage is charging $309 (not a typo!) for the same edition of the textbook, even though it's 13 years old.  They have come out with a 3rd edition that costs $266.  Obviously, used copies are less, but I can't guarantee used copies are always available at reasonable prices. 

I would like to find a similar textbook whose publisher does not engage in abusive price gauging. 

Can anyone recommend such a textbook?

Janet

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Janet Rosenbaum
SUNY Brooklyn
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