ISBN 10: 1285049608 ISBN 13: 9781285049601

Publisher: Brooks Cole, 2013

JMP, a visual discovery software program for statisticians, will enhance your students' learning. JMP combines robust statistics with graphics on the desktop that reveal context and insight so students can more fully understand statistical concepts, work more efficiently with data, and tackle difficult statistical problems more easily. Access to this software is available with new copies of the book and for standalone use at CengageBrain.com.

About the Author:

Roxy Peck is a professor emerita of statistics at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She was a faculty member of the Statistics Department for thirty years, serving for six years as Chair of the Statistics Department and thirteen years as Associate Dean of the College of Science and Mathematics. Nationally known in the area of statistics education, Roxy was made a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1998 and in 2003 she received the American Statistical Association's Founders Award in recognition of her contributions to K-12 and undergraduate statistics education. In 2009, she received the USCOTS Lifetime Achievement Award in Statistics Education. In addition to authoring STATISTICS: LEARNING FROM DATA and co-authoring INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS AND DATA ANALYSIS and STATISTICS: THE EXPLORATION AND ANALYSIS OF DATA, she is editor of STATISTICS: A GUIDE TO THE UNKNOWN, a collection of expository papers that showcase applications of statistical methods. Dr. Peck served from 1999 to 2003 as the Chief Faculty Consultant for the Advanced Placement Statistics exam. She enjoys travel and has visited all seven continents. She also collects Navajo rugs, and heads to Arizona and New Mexico whenever she can find the time.