Statistical Thinking: Elementary Statistics

This example-driven publication provides students with help understanding concepts and methodology with a goal of lessening the fear that statistics brings to many students - and even helping them to enjoy the subject. To accomplish this, the text is methodical, and offers more than one example per chapter. At the end of the analyses (which may involve calculation or computation), explanations are offered for the results. Traditional manual analysis is provided in order to lay basic foundations for understanding of the concepts. At the end of each chapter the use of technology is discussed, and quite a few examples of analyses using technology are presented. In fact, for some examples in which analyses were carried out manually, a technology approach using MINITAB is presented. The steps required to leverage technology for the analyses are presented as templates that can be used for similar problems the reader would encounter. In short, not just the output of computations, but also the code, is presented. There are also several exercise problems at the end of each chapter. Full-blown solutions showing steps that lead to the final results, as opposed to only answers, are presented for at least half of the ex- ercises. In addition, online exercise materials are presented. Most assignments and tests would be carried out online. Each purchaser of the text receives an access code that will enable them to access the online material.