Calculus: Early Transcendental Functions
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From Larson, Ron/ Edwards, Bruce
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Most Trusted Reviews
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- Verified Purchaser
- Single-Day Reviewer (posted all reviews on Aug 16, 2015)
- Easy Grader (avg. rating: 4.7)
Least Trusted Reviews
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- Unverified Purchaser
- One-Hit Wonder
- Never-Verified Reviewer
- Overrepresented Participation (posted 1 Review)
- Critical Reviewer (avg. rating: 1.0)
Analysis Details
24 of the 211 total reviews for this product are unverified purchases. The unverified purchasers have rated this product an average of 3.5 while the verified purchasers have rated this product an average of 4.3. Based on our statistical modeling, the discrepancy in average rating between these two groups is significant enough to believe that the difference is not due to random chance, and may indicate that there are unnatural reviews.
Unverified purchases may be the result of Kindle Unlimited readers, buyers who didn't pay full price, or reviewers who did not purchase the product at Amazon. Read more about our Unverified Purchases test.
One-Hit Wonders
34 of the 211 reviewers have only reviewed this product. While this is more One-Hit Wonders than we'd expect to see, it does not appear to have a significant impact on the overall rating.
Take-Back Reviewers
43 of the 211 reviewers have had at least one of their past reviews for another product deleted. This is an excessively large percentage of Take-Back Reviewers which may indicate unnatural reviews.
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3 of the 211 total reviews for this product use substantial repetitive phrases between them. These reviewers have rated this product an average of 1.3 while reviews without substantial repetitive phrases rated this product an average of 4.2. Based on our statistical modeling, the discrepancy in average rating between these two groups is significant enough to believe that the difference is not due to random chance, and may indicate that there are unnatural reviews.
We discovered a total of 1 deleted Review for this product, with an average rating of 4. Even though deleted reviews don't affect the average rating, the fact that action was taken to delete reviews raises some red flags about the integrity of the reviews for the product as whole.
There are a few limitations to keep in mind regarding the Deleted Reviews test:
- We don't have a magic ability to collect every single deleted review; we can only identify reviews as deleted if we collect them on one date and then notice they are no longer visible on a subsequent date.
- We have no information on reviews that were never published in the first place.
- We also don't know why these reviews were removed. It could be action from the platform, personal decision by the review author, part of an entire account closure, even some data error on our part, etc.
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- 16%
- Created over 17 days
We counted 211 reviews for this product over the span of 7,022 days, an average of 0.0 reviews per day. If these reviews were created randomly, there would be a 99.9% chance that we would see 1 or fewer reviews on any given day.
However, we see the following 17 days exceeding this threshold:In total, we found that 34 reviews were created on just 17 days. This is an excessively high number of reviews submitted on these high volume days.
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- 67%
- From reviewers with an overrepresented participation
We see the following 2 participation groups with a statistically significant greater concentration than what we'd expect to see:In total, we found that 141 reviewers (or 67%) are within an overrepresented participation group. This is an excessively high number of reviewers in overrepresented participation groups.
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- Have an overrepresented word count
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32 of the 211 reviewers have substantial overlapping product review history. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
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Brand Repeaters
4 of the 211 reviewers have reviewed other products for this brand. This is within an acceptable range and it does not appear to be significantly affecting the overall rating for this product.
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- Admitted to receiving an incentive
Read more about our Incentivized Reviews test. Check out our study showing that Incentivized Reviewers are much more likely to leave a positive review.