Just the essentials of elementary statistics Book

Those three criteria guided the writing of this text for the one-term elementary statistics course. Robert Johnson, master teacher and successful author, and co-author Patricia Kuby, keep students in mind in many ways. This edition has a strong computer flavor, with many exercises set up for solution in Mintab "RM" .Johnson and Kuby present statistics as a practical discipline that evolves with the changing needs of our society, giving students a sense of the usefulness and timeliness of the topics and concepts discussed. While studying descriptive and inferential concepts, students become aware of their real-world applications in fields such as the physical and social sciences, business, economics, and engineering. Because this book focuses only on the essentials, it is ideal for use in a variety of course structures. Featuring modern ideas and an easy-to-comprehend exposition, the book places consistent emphasis on real data and graphical analysis. Descriptive coverage of linear correlation and regression appears early. -- Discussions are less technical, in an effort to make the book more approachable. -- The book's formulas are expressed in word algebra, whenever a formula of any complexity is introduced, making the text clearer and easier to understand. -- New graphic displays are used to compare similar statistics, to organize procedures for finding percentiles, and to organize and compare the various statistical tests. -- An increased number of exercises are provided that demonstrate statistical theory through computer simulation, several of which could be used for lab exercises or special assignments. -- The exercises have been expanded and improved, fromsimple drills to critical-thinking questions. The simplest exercises help students gain confidence in computations and single-step questions. -- Two specially designed tables (5 and 7) determine p-values so that the initial experience is not overwhelming. These tables allow p-values to be read directly for tests involving the z or the t statistic. -- Instructions for Minitab "RM", Version II, are included with both session commands and menu commands displayed. -- Packaged with each copy of the text is a StatSource CD-ROM for the student that includes the PowerPoint lecture presentation that is provided to instructors, a tutorial program that offers practice exercises with immediate feedback, a simulation component, and the data sets for the problems in the text.