Pearson - Statistical Reasoning for Everyday Life, 3/E - Jeffrey O. Bennett, William Briggs & Mario F. Triola

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Statistical Reasoning for Everyday Life, Third Edition, teaches students how to be better consumers of information by showing the role of statistics in many aspects of everyday life. This text uses real examples and case studies to build an understanding of the core ideas of statistics that can be applied to a variety of subject areas. The authors include data from real sources to help students become better critical thinkers and decision makers, whether they decide to start a new business, plan for their financial future, or just watch the news.

Features

Current data, topics, and applications reflect what students will encounter in the media and in their daily lives, thus encouraging them to become more engaged, active learners.
Numerous worked examples build understanding and offer practice with different types of questions that also appear in the exercises.
Case Studies throughout the chapters help students explore real issues in an in-depth manner.
Time Out to Think questions throughout the book ask students to reflect on important ideas and concepts. These can serve as excellent classroom discussion starters or as a basis for clicker questions.
In the News questions in most sections ask students to find examples of statistical concepts in the media. These questions may be assigned for homework or used in class discussions.
Projects for the Internet and Beyond require outside research and can be assigned for more in-depth discovery.
End-of-Chapter material includes:

Chapter Review Exercises: Each chapter ends with a brief set of self-study exercises that ties together the ideas presented in the chapter. 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.

New To This Edition

Updated data and topics: The authors have revised or replaced many of the in-text and numbered examples and case studies to be sure they reflect the latest data and topics of interest.
63% new exercises: In addition to replacing more than 800 of the 1,412 exercises, the authors thoroughly reworked the exercise sets and revised or updated most of the others to include fresh, relevant data to engage students while they work the problems. Exercises are divided into the following categories:

Statistical Literacy and Critical Thinking are shorter exercises that test students’ understanding of the 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 their lives.
Projects for the Internet and Beyond require outside research to expand students’ understanding.
In the News activities require analysis of statistical concepts in the media.
Chapter Review exercises test students’ understanding of all topics covered in the chapter.

A Chapter Quiz has been added to each chapter, based on user feedback, to act as a useful study aid.
Over 30 annotated figures highlight relevant information about visual displays of data.
The Using Technology feature in each chapter discusses calculations and provides instruction on using Excel^®,SPSS^®, and STATDISK^® to analyze and display data. Additional technology coverage is located in the Technology Manual and Workbook found on the CD included with every new copy of the textbook.
The Companion CD included with every new copy of the student text includes:

Printable Technology Manual and Workbook by Mario F. Triola
Data Sets formatted for SPSS^®, Excel^®, STATDISK^®, SAS^®, Minitab^®, and as text files
The statistics software program STATDISK and the Excel add-in DDXL
TI-83/84 Plus^® graphing calculator programs

Content updates

Chapter 9 has been rewritten to provide a simpler and more focused introduction to hypothesis testing.
The sections on Statistical Paradoxes (formerly 10.2; now Section 4.4) and Risk and Life Expectancy (formerly 10.1; now Section 6.4) have been moved to fit in with the flow of the exposition.
Two new sections in Chapter 10 discuss t distributions and one-way ANOVA.

MyStatLab^™ is an easily customizable online course that creates personalized study plans for students based on their test results and offers unlimited (algorithmically generated) practice exercises correlated directly to the textbook’s exercises.

Table of Contents

Preface

Supplements

To the Student: 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 Sociology: Does Daycare Breed Bullies?

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

Focus on Politics: Who Benefits from a Tax Cut?

Focus on Economics: Is our Standard of Living Improving?

3. Visual Displays of Data

3.1 Frequency Tables

3.2 Picturing Distributions of Data

3.3 Graphics in the Media

3.4 A Few Cautions About Graphics

Using Technology

Focus on History: Can War Be Described with a Graph?

Focus on Environment: How Can We Visualize Global Warming?

4. Describing Data

4.1 What Is Average?

4.2 Shapes of Distributions

4.3 Measures of Variation

4.4 Statistical Paradoxes

Using Technology

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

5.3 The Central Limit Theorem

Using Technology

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 226

6.2 Basics of Probability

6.3 Probabilities with Large Numbers

6.4 Ideas of Risk and Life Expectancy

6.5 Combining Probabilities (Supplementary Section)

Focus on Social Science: Are Lotteries Fair?

Focus on Law: Is DNA Fingerprinting Reliable?

7. Correlation and Causality

7.1 Seeking Correlation

7.2 Interpreting Correlations

7.3 Best-Fit Lines and Prediction

7.4 The Search for Causality

Using Technology

Focus on Education: What Helps Children Learn to Read?

Focus on Environment: What Causes Global Warming?

8. From Samples to Populations

8.1 Sampling Distributions

8.2 Estimating Population Means

8.3 Estimating Population Proportions

Using Technology

Focus on History: Where Did Statistics Begin?

Focus on Literature: How Many Words Did Shakespeare Know?

9. Hypothesis Testing

9.1 Fundamentals of Hypothesis Testing

9.2 Hypothesis Tests for Population Means

9.3 Hypothesis Testing: Population Proportions

Using Technology

Focus on Health & Education: Will Your Education Help You Live Longer?

Focus on Agriculture: Are Genetically Modified Foods Safe?

10. t Tests, Two-Way Tables, and ANOVA

10.1 Distribution for Inferences about a Mean

10.2 t Hypothesis Testing with Two-Way Tables

10.3 Analysis of Variance (One-Way ANOVA)

Using Technology

Focus on Criminology: Can You Tell a Fraud When You See One?

Focus on Education: What Can a Fourth-Grader Do with Statistics?

Epilogue: A Perspective on Statistics

Appendix A: z-Score Tables

Appendix B: Table of Random Numbers

Suggested Readings

Credits

Glossary

Answers

Index

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Statistical Reasoning for Everyday Life, 2/E
Bennett, Briggs & Triola
©2003 | Pearson | Paper; 528 pp | Out of Print
ISBN-10: 0201771284 | ISBN-13: 9780201771282
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The goals of the book are to help students develop an understanding of statistics and develop their statistical reasoning skills. This text approaches statistics by presenting an overall picture, then providing an explanation of the topics in context. Students develop an understanding of statistics that is reinforced in the exercises, Web projects, and Focus On features.
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Jeffrey Bennett specializes in mathematics and science education. In addition to his work in mathematics, Dr. Bennett (whose PhD is in astrophysics) has written leading college-level textbooks in mathematics, astronomy, statistics, and the new science of astrobiology, as well as books for the general public. He also proposed and developed both the Colorado Scale Model Solar System on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus and the Voyage Scale Model Solar System, a permanent, outdoor exhibit on the National Mall in Washington, DC. He has recently begun writing science books for children, including the award-winning Max Goes to the Moon and Max Goes to Mars.

William L. Briggs has been on the mathematics faculty at the University of Colorado at Denver for 22 years. He developed the quantitative reasoning course for liberal arts students at the University of Colorado at Denver, supported by his textbook Using and Understanding Mathematics. He is a University of Colorado President's Teaching Scholar, an Outstanding Teacher awardee of the Rocky Mountain Section of the MAA, and the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Ireland.

Mario F. Triola is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Dutchess Community College, where he taught statistics for more than 30 years. Marty [change to Dr. Triola to match Dr. Bennett above?] is the author of Elementary Statistics, Elementary Statistics Using Excel, Elementary Statistics Using the TI-83/84 Plus Calculator, Essentials of Statistics, and a co-author of Biostatistics for the Biological and Health Sciences, Statistical Reasoning for Everyday Life, and Business Statistics. He has written several manuals and workbooks for technology supporting statistics education. The Text and Academic Authors Association has awarded Mario F. Triola a “Texty” for Excellence, for his work on Elementary Statistics.

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