Synopsis
This revised and expanded edition is designed to motivate and challenge students without a strong mathematics background. Filled with real-world examples, step-by-step explanations, quality exercise sets that link applications to concepts and procedures, and sound pedagogy, this text makes statistics interesting and accessible. New features include problems designed for use with the graphing calculator, directions and screen shots for the Windows version of Minitab throughout the text and an increased focus on technology as a teaching tool.
Booknews
Written for a first course in applied statistics, this book employs realistic examples to illustrate fundamental concepts in the field. Chapters address matters like the organization of data, numerical descriptive measures, probability, discrete random variables, continuous random variables, sampling distributions, mean and proportion, hypothesis tests, estimation, chi-square tests, analysis of variance, simple linear regression, and nonparametric methods. Appendixes feature sample surveys, a guide to using minitab, excel adventures, and statistical tables. Mann teaches at Eastern Connecticut State University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)