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Statistical Reasoning for Everyday Life, 5th edition

Published by Pearson (January 4, 2017) © 2018

  • Jeff Bennett University of Colorado at Boulder
  • William L. Briggs University of Colorado Denver
  • Mario F. Triola Dutchess Community College

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About the Book

More student-friendly than ever.

  • UPDATED! Dozens of new and revised examples and case studies reflect the latest data and topics of interest, tying statistical concepts to everyday life.
  • UPDATED! 20 in-depth Focus topics have been revised to ensure the most updated information.
  • REVISED! Exercise sets have been thoroughly reworked, featuring updated data and new problems.
  • REVISED! All chapters include major revisions, especially Chapters 9 and 10, which have been reorganized to optimize student understanding of more advanced topics.

A comprehensive look at real-world applications of statistics.

  • Up-to-date data, topics, and examples reflect what students encounter in the media and the world, encouraging them to become more engaged, active learners.
  • Worked examples build understanding and give students the opportunity to practice with different types of questions.
  • Case studies, located throughout the chapters, help students explore real issues in depth.
  • Think About It questions, located throughout the book, ask students to reflect on important ideas and concepts. These serve as excellent classroom discussion-starters or as a basis for clicker questions.
  • More than 1,400 exercises help students practice concepts while observing real-world examples of how statistics apply to the world around them. Exercises are divided into the following categories:
    • Statistical Literacy and Critical Thinking exercises are brief and test students’ understanding of topics covered in the previous section.
    • Concepts and Applications exercises address more difficult concepts and allow students to practice their knowledge of statistical topics and apply them to real life.
    • Projects for the Internet and Beyond require outside research and can be assigned for more in-depth discovery.
    • In the News questions, found in most sections, ask students to identify examples of statistical concepts in the media. These questions may be assigned for homework or used in class discussions.
  • End-of-Chapter material includes:
    • Chapter Review Exercises, a brief set of self-study exercises at the end of each chapter, tie together the ideas covered. Answers are located in the back of the book.
    • Two Focus On case studies examine important statistical issues in a variety of fields, including history, environmental studies, agriculture, psychology, literature, and economics. Each Focus On section includes a set of questions for assignment or discussion.
    • Chapter Quizzes appear at the end of each chapter and serve as useful study aids.
  • Using Technology sections, found in each chapter, discuss calculations and provide instruction on using tools such as Excel®, SPSS®, and STATDISK® to analyze and display data.
  • More than 30 annotated figures highlight relevant information about visual displays of data.

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About the Book

More student-friendly than ever.

  • Dozens of new and revised examples and case studies reflect the latest data and topics of interest, tying statistical concepts to everyday life.
  • 20 in-depth Focus topics have been substantially rewritten to ensure the most updated information.
  • Exercise sets have been thoroughly reworked, featuring updated data and new problems.
  • All chapters include major revisions, especially Chapters 9 and 10, which have been reorganized to optimize student understanding of more advanced topics.

Also available with MyLab Statistics

MyLab™ Statistics is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Within its structured environment, students practice what they learn, test their understanding, and pursue a personalized study plan that helps them absorb course material and understand difficult concepts.

  • Updated Tech Tutorial Study Cards and Videos are effective tutorial learning aids and updated for Excel 2016 and Minitab 17 functionality.
  • Learning Catalytics Questions cover the book-specific statistical content from the new edition of Statistical Reasoning for Everyday Life.
  • Learning Catalytics™ helps generate class discussion, customize lectures, and promote peer-to-peer learning with real-time analytics. As a student response tool, Learning Catalytics uses students’ smartphones, tablets, or laptops to engage them in more interactive tasks and thinking.
    • NEW! Upload a full PowerPoint® deck for easy creation of slide questions.
    • NEW! Team names are no longer case sensitive.
    • Help your students develop critical thinking skills.
    • Monitor responses to find out where your students are struggling.
    • Rely on real-time data to adjust your teaching strategy.
    • Automatically group students for discussion, teamwork, and peer-to-peer learning.

Preface

Supplements

How to Succeed in Your Statistics Course

Applications Index

 

1. Speaking of Statistics

1.1 What Is/Are Statistics?

1.2 Sampling

1.3 Types of Statistical Studies

1.4 Should You Believe a Statistical Study?

FOCUS ON PSYCHOLOGY: Are You Driving “Drunk” on Your Cell Phone?

FOCUS ON PUBLIC HEALTH: Is Your Lifestyle Healthy?

 

2. Measurement in Statistics

2.1 Data Types and Levels of Measurement

2.2 Dealing with Errors

2.3 Uses of Percentages in Statistics

2.4 Index Numbers

USING TECHNOLOGY: Inflation Calculator

FOCUS ON POLITICS: Who Benefited Most from Lower Tax Rates?

FOCUS ON ECONOMICS: Can a Redefined CPI Help the National Debt?

 

3. Visual Displays of Data

3.1 Frequency Tables

USING TECHNOLOGY: Frequency Tables

3.2 Picturing Distributions of Data

USING TECHNOLOGY: Bar Graphs

USING TECHNOLOGY: Pie Charts

USING TECHNOLOGY: Line Charts and Histograms

3.3 Graphics in the Media

USING TECHNOLOGY: Graphs with Multiple Data Sets

3.4 A Few Cautions about Graphics

FOCUS ON HISTORY: Can War Be Described with a Graph?

FOCUS ON THE ENVIRONMENT: Are We Changing Earth’s Atmosphere?

 

4. Describing Data

4.1 What Is Average?

USING TECHNOLOGY: Mean, Median, and Mode

4.2 Shapes of Distributions

4.3 Measures of Variation

USING TECHNOLOGY: Quartiles

USING TECHNOLOGY: Boxplots

USING TECHNOLOGY: Standard Deviation

4.4 Statistical Paradoxes

FOCUS ON THE STOCK MARKET: What’s Average about the Dow?

FOCUS ON ECONOMICS: Are the Rich Getting Richer?

 

5. A Normal World

5.1 What Is Normal?

5.2 Properties of the Normal Distribution

USING TECHNOLOGY: Standard Scores and Percentiles

5.3 The Central Limit Theorem

FOCUS ON EDUCATION: What Can We Learn from SAT Trends?

FOCUS ON PSYCHOLOGY: Are We Smarter Than Our Parents?

 

6. Probability in Statistics

6.1 The Role of Probability in Statistics: Statistical Significance

6.2 Basics of Probability

6.3 The Law of Large Numbers

6.4 Ideas of Risk and Life Expectancy

6.5 Combining Probabilities (Supplementary Section)

FOCUS ON SOCIAL SCIENCE: Do Lotteries Harm the Poor?

FOCUS ON LAW: Is DNA Analysis Reliable?

 

7. Correlation and Causality

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