Statistics


Book Description

This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book. Michael Sullivan's Statistics: Informed Decisions Using Data, Fourth Edition, connects statistical concepts to students' lives, helping them to think critically, become informed consumers, and make better decisions. Throughout the book, "Putting It Together" features help students visualize the relationships among various statistical concepts. This feature extends to the exercises, providing a consistent vision of the bigger picture of statistics. This book follows the Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education (GAISE), as recommended by the American Statistical Association, and emphasizes statistical literacy, use of real data and technology, conceptual understanding, and active learning.










Essentials of Statistics


Book Description

From SAT scores to job search methods, statistics influences and shapes the world around us. Marty Triola's text continues to be the bestseller because it helps students understand the relationship between statistics and the world, bringing life to the theory and methods. Essentials of Statistics (a briefer version of Elementary Statistics-see below for the full series) raises the bar with every edition by incorporating an unprecedented amount of real and interesting data that will help instructors connect with students today, and help them connect statistics to their daily lives. The Fifth Edition contains more than 1,585 exercises, 89% of which use real data and 86% of which are new.




Interactive Statistics


Book Description

This worktext encourages hands-on learning. It presents statistical concepts briefly, and reinforces with them with small-group activities that illustrate the concepts. The TI-83 graphing calculator is used as an easy-to-use tool that should help students visualize statistical methods.







Student Solutions Manual for Essential Statistics, Regression, and Econometrics


Book Description

Essential Statistics, Regression, and Econometrics provides students with a readable, deep understanding of the key statistical topics they need to understand in an econometrics course. It is innovative in its focus, including real data, pitfalls in data analysis, and modeling issues (including functional forms, causality, and instrumental variables). This book is unusually readable and non-intimidating, with extensive word problems that emphasize intuition and understanding. Exercises range from easy to challenging and the examples are substantial and real, to help the students remember the technique better. It offers readable exposition and exceptional exercises/examples that students can relate to. It focuses on key methods for econometrics students without including unnecessary topics. It covers data analysis not covered in other texts. It includes ideal presentation of material (topic order) for econometrics .




Student Solutions Manual for Introductory Statistics


Book Description

This Guide offers students explanations of crucial concepts in each section of IPS, plus detailed solutions to key text problems and stepped-through models of important statistical techniques.




Student Solutions Manual to accompany Statistics: Unlocking the Power of Data, 2e


Book Description

This is the Student Solutions Manual to Accompany Statistics: Unlocking the Power of Data, 2nd Edition. Statistics, 2nd Edition moves the curriculum in innovative ways while still looking relatively familiar. Statistics, 2e utilizes intuitive methods to introduce the fundamental idea of statistical inference. These intuitive methods are enabled through statistical software and are accessible at very early stages of a course. The text also includes the more traditional methods such as t-tests, chi-square tests, etc., but only after students have developed a strong intuitive understanding of inference through randomization methods. The text is designed for use in a one-semester introductory statistics course. The focus throughout is on data analysis and the primary goal is to enable students to effectively collect data, analyze data, and interpret conclusions drawn from data. The text is driven by real data and real applications. Students completing the course should be able to accurately interpret statistical results and to analyze straightforward data sets.