Statistics: Informed Decisions Using Data plus MyStatLab with Pearson eText, Global Edition

For courses in introductory statistics.

This package includes MyStatLab^™.

Putting It Together

Statistics: Informed Decisions Using Data, Fifth Edition, gives students the tools to see a bigger picture and make informed choices. As a current introductory statistics instructor, Mike Sullivan III presents a text that is filled with ideas and strategies that work in today’s classroom. His practical emphasis resonates with students and helps them see that statistics is connected, not only to individual concepts but also with the world at large.

MyStatLab for this edition takes advantage of data analytics to add additional exercises to high usage chapters. New Technology Support Videos show the author demonstrating easy-to-follow steps to solve a problem in several different formats–by hand, TI-84, and StatCrunch^™.

This package includes MyStatLab, the world’s leading online resource for teaching and learning statistics; it integrates interactive homework, assessment, and media in a flexible, easy-to-use format. MyStatLab is a course management system that helps individual students succeed. It provides engaging experiences that personalize, stimulate, and measure learning for each student. Tools are embedded to make it easy to integrate statistical software into the course. And, it comes from an experienced partner with educational expertise and an eye on the future.

MyStatLab should only be purchased when required by an instructor. Please be sure you have the correct ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information.

Preface to the Instructor

Resources for Success

Technology Resources

Applications Index

PART 1: GETTING THE INFORMATION YOU NEED

1. Data Collection

1.1 Introduction to the Practice of Statistics

1.2 Observational Studies versus Designed Experiments

1.3 Simple Random Sampling

1.4 Other Effective Sampling Methods

1.5 Bias in Sampling

1.6 The Design of Experiments

   Chapter 1 Review

   Chapter Test

   Making an Informed Decision: What College Should I Attend?

   Case Study: Chrysalises for Cash

PART 2: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS

2. Organizing and Summarizing Data

2.1 Organizing Qualitative Data

2.2 Organizing Quantitative Data: The Popular Displays

2.3 Additional Displays of Quantitative Data

2.4 Graphical Misrepresentations of Data

   Chapter 2 Review

   Chapter Test

   Making an Informed Decision: Tables or Graphs?

   Case Study: The Day the Sky Roared

3. Numerically Summarizing Data

3.1 Measures of Central Tendency

3.2 Measures of Dispersion

3.3 Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion from Grouped Data

3.4 Measures of Position and Outliers

3.5 The Five-Number Summary and Boxplots

   Chapter 3 Review

   Chapter Test

   Making an Informed Decision: What Car Should I Buy?

   Case Study: Who Was “A Mourner”?

4. Describing the Relation between Two Variables

4.1 Scatter Diagrams and Correlation

4.2 Least-Squares Regression

4.3 Diagnostics on the Least-Squares Regression Line

4.4 Contingency Tables and Association

4.5 Nonlinear Regression: Transformations (online) 4-1

   Chapter 4 Review

   Chapter Test

   Making an Informed Decision: Relationships among Variables on a World Scale

   Case Study: Thomas Malthus, Population, and Subsistence

PART 3: PROBABILITY AND PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS

5. Probability

5.1 Probability Rules

5.2 The Addition Rule and Complements

5.3 Independence and the Multiplication Rule

5.4 Conditional Probability and the General Multiplication Rule

5.5 Counting Techniques

5.6 Putting It Together: Which Method Do I Use?

5.7 Bayes’s Rule (online) 5-1

   Chapter 5 Review

   Chapter Test

   Making an Informed Decision: The Effects of Drinking and Driving

   Case Study: The Case of the Body in the Bag

6. Discrete Probability Distributions

6.1 Discrete Random Variables

6.2 The Binomial Probability Distribution

6.3 The Poisson Probability Distribution

6.4 The Hypergeometric Probability Distribution (online) 6-1

   Chapter 6 Review

   Chapter Test

   Making an Informed Decision: Should We Convict?

   Case Study: The Voyage of the St. Andrew

7. The Normal Probability Distribution

7.1 Properties of the Normal Distribution

7.2 Applications of the Normal Distribution

7.3 Assessing Normality

7.4 The Normal Approximation to the Binomial Probability Distribution

   Chapter 7 Review

   Chapter Test

   Making an Informed Decision: Stock Picking

   Case Study: A Tale of Blood Chemistry

   Inference: From Samples to Population

PART 4: INFERENCE: FROM SAMPLES TO POPULATION

8. Sampling Distributions

8.1 Distribution of the