Cengage Learning Utts & Heckard's Mind on Statistics

Statistics is a challenging discipline for undergraduate students. This new text is adapted from Jessica Utts and Robert Heckard’s best-selling general introductory statistics text, Mind on Statistics. It emphasises the conceptual development of statistical ideas and seeks to find meaning in data. This local adaptation retains the conversational approach of the original text, with real examples and case studies of appeal and interest to Australian and New Zealand students. The revised structure and relevant examples motivate students and guide them through the statistical process of tackling problems, planning and data collection, analysing and interpreting information and finding solutions. Review 1. Thinking statistically 2. Gathering and preparing useful data 3. Turning data into graphical information 4. Data features and summary statistics 5. Investigating categorical variables and their relationships 6. Probability essentials for data analysis 7. Estimating proportions with confidence 8. Analysis of variance: Investigating effects of categorical variables on a continuous variable 9. Regression: Investigating relationships between continuous variables 10. Interval estimation: One or two continuous variables 11. Testing hypotheses about means, proportions and variances in one and two samples 12. More on probability, random variables and distributions 13. Sums and differences of random variables 14. Some further data situations About the Author Helen’s university teaching experience extends across many areas of statistical sciences and their applications, across all levels of subjects, all class sizes and many disciplines, particularly engineering and science. Helen was the first female President and first female Honorary Life Member of the Statistical Society of Australia Inc (SSAI) and is now President of the International Association for Statistical Education.