Statistics in Action: Understanding a World of Data

Text designed for an introductory high school or college statistics course, presenting real problems that can be solved only with statistical methods. Includes review exercises and chapter summaries.

From the reviews:

"This introductory statistics course uses real problems that can only be solved using statistical methods. It explains in an easily-understood way how to: explore, summarise and display data; how to design experiments and surveys ... ." (Book News on the Internet, January, 2005)

"This book is designed for an introductory statistics course ... . you will be immersed in real problems that can be solved only with statistical methods. You will learn to: explore, summarize, and display data; design surveys and experiments; use probability to understand random behavior; make inferences about populations by looking at samples from those populations; make inferences about the effect of treatments from designed experiments." (Zentralblatt für Didaktik und Mathematik, Februar, 2004)