Workshop Statistics

Discovery with Data

Allan J. Rossman, Beth L. Chance

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9780470542088
• eBook ISBN: 9781118213421
• Edition: 4
• Topic: Mathematics
• Subtopic: Probability & Statistics
• Index: Mathematics

Allan Rossman's 4th Edition of Workshop Statistics: Discovery with Data is enhanced from previous issues with more focus and emphasis on collaborative learning. It further requires student observation, and integrates technology for gathering, recording, and synthesizing data. The text offers more flexibility in selecting technology tools for classrooms primarily using technologies other than graphing calculators or Fathom Dynamic Data software. Furthermore, it presents more standards for teaching statistics in an innovative, investigative, and accessible as well as provides in-depth guidance and resources to support active learning of statistics and includes updated real data sets with everyday applications in order to promote statistical literacy.

Table of contents

• Workshop Statistics: Discovery with Data
• Contents
• Annotated Contents
• Preface
• To the Student
• Supplementary Materials
• Organization of Workshop Statistics
• List of Activities by Application
• List of Activities Using Student-Generated Data
• Photo Credits
• Unit 1: Collecting Data and Drawing Conclusions
• Unit 2: Summarizing Data
• Unit 3: Randomness in Data
• Unit 4: Inference from Data: Principles
• Unit 5: Inference from Data: Comparisons
• Unit 6: Inferences with Categorical Data
• Unit 7: Relationships in Data
• Table I: Random Digits
• Table II: Standard Normal Probabilities
• Table III: t-Distribution Critical Values
• Table IV: Chi-Square Distribution Critical Values
• Appendix A: Student Glossary
• Appendix B: Sources for Studies and Datasets
• Appendix C: List of Data Files and Applets
• Index