Workshop statistics. Discovery with data.

Authors Allan J. Rossman, Beth L. Chance

Publication date 23 August 2000

comparison of means comparison of proportions comparisons of distributions data collection least squares regression measures of center measures of spread randomness significance tests tables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to statistics (62-01)

Review text

[For the review of the first edition from 1996 see Zbl 0856.62003).] From the preface: The changes in this second edition are substantial. They have been informed by the reactions and suggestions of instructors and students who have used the first edition, as well as by our own experiences and by our study of the research literature regarding students' learning of statistics. New topics have been added on sampling distributions and the Central Limit Theorem for sample means, chi-square tests for two-way tables, and inference for correlation and regression. Many other topics are given a much fuller treatment, such as probability and experimental design. Concepts and techniques that have been added within topics include mean absolute deviation, relative risk, stratification, and blocking. Many of the in-class activities have been re-written and new ones developed to better focus students' attention on the statistical principles being introduced. Many of the new activities address conceptual understanding in particular. Numerous homework activities have been added to allow instructors more choices in activities to assign. Many of the time dependent dara sets in the first edition, most recorded in the early 1990s, have been updated to more current values. These include Senators' and Justices' years of service, Hollywood and Broadway box office revenues, golfers' winnings, Presidential election results, governors' salaries, and baseball results, to name just a few. The use of hypothetical datasets has been decreased. The book continues to be arranged around six units, each comprised of multiple topics. Some of these units and topics have been re-organized. Unit II addresses comparisons as well as relationships, with relationships between categorical variables moved earlier and considered as comparisons. The issue of data collection now comprises the third unit. The unit on principles of inference now encompasses inference for population means as well as proportions, eliminating the need for a unit on inference for measurements. The final unit presents inference for both comparisons and relationships. As in the first edition, expository paragraphs are interspersed among the activities to reinforce the ideas that students are to garner from the activities. The more important of these expository passages have been highlighted within boxes to ensure that students do not miss the most important ideas. The header now helps students and instructors to find activities by number more easily, and page references are now given for the numerous activities that refer to previous ones.

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