Additional examples with updated data make this new edition even easier to read and use.ĮXPLORING AND UNDERSTANDING DATA Stats Start Here Data Displaying and Describing Categorical Data Displaying and Comparing Qualitative Data Understanding and Comparing Distributions The Standard Deviation as a Ruler and the Normal Model EXPLORING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN VARIABLES Scatterplots, Association, and Correlation Linear Regression Regression Wisdom Re-expressing Data: Get it Straight! GATHERING DATA Understanding Randomness Sample Surveys Experiments and Observational Studies RANDOMNESS AND PROBABILITY From Randomness to Probability Probability Rules! Random Variables Probability Models FROM THE DATA AT HAND TO THE WORLD AT LARGE Sampling Distribution Models Confidence Intervals for Proportions Testing Hypotheses About Proportions More About Tests and Intervals Comparing Two Proportions LEARNING ABOUT THE WORLD Inferences about Means Comparing Means Paired Samples and Blocks INFERENCE WHEN VARIABLES ARE RELATED Comparing Counts Inferences for Regression Analysis of Variance (on DVD) Multiple Regression (on DVD)įor all readers interested in introductory statistics.ĭavid Bock (Cornell University) has won awards as a high school teacher of AP calculus and statistics and was a grader for the AP Statistics program from its inception.
Instructors praise this text as clear and accessible, while students report that they actually enjoy reading the book while learning how to do statistics. With the authors’ signature Think, Show, Tell problem-solving method, students learn what we can find in data, why we find it interesting and how to report it to others.
Date of Addition: 11/17/21 Copyrighted By: Pearson Education, Inc.KEY BENEFIT: By leading with practical data analysis and graphics, Stats: Modeling the World, Third Edition, engages students and gets them to do statistics and think statistically from the start. In this course and with this textbook, you can say goodbye to that oft-uttered math class question, "When does anyone ever use this stuff?"!” – from the book.Ĭopyright: 2016 Book Details Book Quality: Excellent Book Size: 600 Pages ISBN-13: 9780133839722 Publisher: Pearson Education, Inc. The book's engaging style, support for underlying math skills, and scaffolded materials that enable success for all students tie all the skills and concepts to the world we live in.
Teachers are delighted that students can and do learn from reading the text, and their students say (to their amazement) that they even find the book enjoyable. We modeled the first edition on Stats: Modeling the World, the highly successful AP® Statistics book, and have been thrilled by feedback from all sides. The questions that motivate our hundreds of examples and exercises highlight the wide applicability of Statistics, teach the methods and procedures of proper data analysis, and-most importantly-emphasize thinking about what the results mean. By leading with real-world examples, clear graphics, and practical data analysis, we get students "doing Statistics" quickly and "thinking statistically" right from the start. “This text presents Statistics as a key tool for thinking about the world.