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For algebra-based introductory statistics coursesStatistics opens a window to the modern world, and this market-leading text makes it easy to understand! Larson and Farber's Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World, Sixth Edition, provides stepped out instruction, real-life examples and exercises, and the use of technology to offer the most accessible approach. The authors carefully develop theory through strong pedagogy, and examples show how statistics is used to picture and describe the world. In keeping with the premise that students learn best by doing, it includes more than 210 examples and more than 2300 exercises, to make the concepts of statistics a part of students' everyday lives.Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World, Sixth Edition, presents a better teaching and learning experience-for you and your students. Here's how:Personalized learning with MyStatLab (TM): the accompanying MyStatLab online course provides users with countless opportunities to practice, plus statistics-specific resources and tools that enhance their experience and comprehension. Stepped out instruction and guided student learning through an abundance of exercises build students' knowledge and skills in statistics.Included are visual descriptions, unique chapter overviews and summaries, clear learning objectives, boxed definitions and formulas, margin features, and more. Real-life and interactive features present statistics at work in the real world and show how statistics is relevant to students' lives. Examples and exercises tie the material to students' lives.Please note that the product you are purchasing does not include MyStatLab. MyStatLabJoin over 11 million students benefiting from Pearson MyLabs.This title can be supported by MyStatLab, an online homework and tutorial system designed to test and build your understanding. Would you like to use the power of MyStatLab to accelerate your learning? You need both an access card and a course ID to access MyStatLab.These are the steps you need to take:1. Make sure that your lecturer is already using the system Ask your lecturer before purchasing a MyLab product as you will need a course ID from them before you can gain access to the system.2. Check whether an access card has been included with the book at a reduced cost If it has, it will be on the inside back cover of the book.3. If you have a course ID but no access code, you can benefit from MyStatLab at a reduced price by purchasing a pack containing a copy of the book and an access code for MyStatLab (ISBN:9781292069012)4. If your lecturer is using the MyLab and you would like to purchase the product...Go to www.mystatlab.com to buy access to this interactive study programme.For educator access, contact your Pearson representative. To find out who your Pearson representative is, visit www.pearsoned.co.uk/replocator
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PART ONE. DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS1. Introduction to Statistics1.1. An Overview of Statistics1.2. Data ClassificationCase Study: Rating Television Shows in theUnited States1.3. Data Collection and Experimental DesignActivity: Random NumbersUses and AbusesChapter SummaryReview ExercisesChapter QuizChapter TestReal Statistics-Real Decisions-Putting It All TogetherHistory of Statistics-TimelineTechnology: Using Technology in Statistics2. Descriptive Statistics2.1. Frequency Distributions and Their Graphs2.2. More Graphs and Displays2.3. Measures of Central TendencyActivity: Mean Versus Median2.4. Measures of VariationActivity: Standard DeviationCase Study: Business Size2.5. Measures of PositionUses and AbusesChapter SummaryReview ExercisesChapter QuizChapter TestReal Statistics-Real Decisions-Putting It All TogetherTechnology: Parking TicketsUsing Technology to Determine DescriptiveStatisticsCumulative Review: Chapters 1 and 2PART TWO. PROBABILITY & PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS3. Probability3.1. Basic Concepts of Probability and CountingActivity: Simulating the Stock Market3.2. Conditional Probability and the Multiplication Rule3.3. The Addition RuleActivity: Simulating the Probability of Rolling a 3 or 4Case Study: United States Congress3.4. Additional Topics in Probability and CountingUses and AbusesChapter SummaryReview ExercisesChapter QuizChapter TestReal Statistics-Real Decisions-Putting It All TogetherTechnology: Simulation: Composing MozartVariations with Dice4. Discrete Probability Distributions4.1. Probability Distributions4.2. Binomial DistributionsActivity: Binomial DistributionCase Study: Distribution of Number of Hits inBaseball Games4.3. More Discrete Probability DistributionsUses and AbusesChapter SummaryReview ExercisesChapter QuizChapter TestReal Statistics-Real Decisions-Putting It All TogetherTechnology: Simulation: Using PoissonDistributions as Queuing Models5. Normal Probability Distributions5.1. Introduction to Normal Distributions and the Standard Normal Distribution5.2. Normal Distributions: Finding Probabilities5.3. Normal Distributions: Finding ValuesCase Study: Birth Rates in America5.4. Sampling Distributions and the Central Limit TheoremActivity: Sampling Distributions5.5. Normal Approximations to Binomial DistributionsUses and AbusesChapter SummaryReview ExercisesChapter QuizChapter TestReal Statistics-Real Decisions-Putting It All TogetherTechnology: Simulation: Age Distribution in theUnited StatesCumulative Review: Chapters 3 to 5PART THREE. STATISTICAL INFERENCE6. Confidence Intervals6.1. Confidence Intervals for the Mean ( Known)6.2. Confidence Intervals for the Mean ( Unknown)Activity: Confidence Intervals for a Mean
