"Statistics, 4th edition, International Edition" emphasizes the conceptual development of statistical ideas and the importance of looking for, and finding, meaning in data. Authors Jessica Utts and Robert Heckard actively engage students' natural curiosity, motivating them with intriguing questions and explaining statistical topics in the context of a wide range of interesting, useful examples and case studies.
Throughout, the authors balance the promotion of statistical literacy with coverage of the statistical methodology taught in general introductory statistics courses. Their approach is based on the premises that new material is much easier to learn and remember if it is related to something interesting or previously known, and if students actively ask questions and find the answers for themselves.
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1. Statistics Success Stories and Cautionary Tales
2. Turning Data into Information
3. Relationships Between Quantitative Variables
4. Relationships Between Categorical Variables
5. Sampling: Surveys amd How to Ask Questions
6. Gathering Useful Data for Examining Relationships
7. Probability
8. Random Variables
9. Understanding Sampling Distributions: Statistics as Random Variables
10. Estimating Proportions with Confidence
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