Elementary Statistics, Second Edition

ELEMENTARY STATISTICS, Eighth Edition offers comprehensive coverage of elementary statistics in a language that speaks to today's students. This text goes beyond formulas, offering 'real-world' data and examples that present statistics as a useful tool in real-world applications, e.g. physical and social sciences, business, and engineering. The authors promote the learning of statistics in a context that relates to personal experience. ELEMENTARY STATISTICS features modern ideas by integrating the use of computer output and instruction for every exercise.

Robert R. Johnson is Professor of Mathematics Emeritus and a former chair of the Mathematics Department at Monroe Community College. He received his B.S. from SUNY Cortland and his M.A. from University of Northern Iowa, both in mathematics; and has studied statistics at University of Iowa and Rochester Institute of Technology. Bob was the author of ELEMENTARY STATISTICS and JUST THE ESSENTIALS OF STATISTICS until being joined by co-author Patricia Kuby. They also co-author STAT. Professor Johnson has given several presentations about the "teaching of statistics" and the use of MINITAB in teaching statistics at various conferences and workshops. He used computers and MINITAB for over 30 years to aid in teaching statistics. He was also an active advocate for writing across the curriculum. Organizing the Beyond the Formula Statistics Conferences for teachers of Introductory Statistics was a passion from 1997 through 2005.