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THE WORKSHOP STATISTICS™ SERIES

by Allan J. Rossman and Beth L. Chance

Overview

The Workshop Statistics™ series has set a standard for teaching statistics in an innovative, investigative, and accessible manner for introductory college courses, as well as for the high school statistics classroom, including AP^® Statistics.

Authors Allan Rossman and Beth Chance, in collaboration with Robin Lock, J. Barr von Oehsen, and Ginger Rowell are now updating the series to make their workshop pedagogy accessible to even more classrooms and students.

Workshop Statistics emphasizes collaborative learning, requires student observation, and integrates technology for gathering, recording, and synthesizing data. These books are not an exposition on statistics, but a series of hands-on activities where your students discover statistical concepts, explore statistical principles, and apply statistical techniques by digging into rich data sets. In other words, your students learn statistics by doing statistics.

Workshop Statistics titles contain sufficient material for use as the main text in a course but are inexpensive enough to be added on as a lab component in some courses.

The Workshop Statistics Series

Workshop Statistics: Discovery with Data, Third Edition (available): This version of Workshop Statistics—also called the “parent” version—requires the use of a software package or graphing calculator of your choice.

Workshop Statistics: Discovery with Data and Fathom 2, Third Edition (due March 2008): This alternate version offers the same support as the parent book, but with embedded technology-specific commands, hints, and guidance for Fathom 2.

Workshop Statistics: Discovery with Data and the Graphing Calculator, Third Edition (due April 2008): This alternate version offers the same support as the parent book, but with embedded technology-specific commands, hints, and guidance for the TI-83/TI-84 Plus and TI-89 graphing calculators.

New Features for the Third Edition

One of the main focuses of this revision was increase student support with more expository material. The third edition includes these changes:

• Many new activities that make use of real data and present students with authentic studies that address specific research questions, helping them to recognize the power of statistics to answer questions of genuine interest in everyday life.
• Watch Out points added to all topics to help students develop useful statistical habits.
• Self-Check Examples with detailed solutions added to all topics so students can check their work and assess their understanding.
• Wrap-Up sections have been greatly expanded to provide more information about the material covered in the topic.
• Additional coverage has been added on probability, random variables, the binomial distribution, and Analysis of Variance through the Web-based Student Resource Center.
• An attractive new design adds visual appeal and clarifies the features as well as facilitates navigation between features and topics.

Increased Instructor Support for the Third Edition

In addition to the activity-by-activity coaching provided in the existing online instructor resources, the third edition offers these new supplements:

Instructor Resources and Adjunct Guide: This instructor resource—in print for this edition—offers discussion and step-by-step instruction for all Preliminaries sections and In-Class Activities. Extensive instructor planning support includes sample syllabi and sample exams. Detailed solutions to all activities in the parent book are provided.

AP Guide for Instructors: For high-school instructors, this supplement provides guidance to meet the needs of the Advanced Placement course.

Web Resources: Instructors have access to all content from the Web-based Student Resource Center and are also provided with notes and solutions for student content material delivered on the Web. Testing options (both CD and Web-based), assessment resources, and links to statistics education resources (including GAISE recommendations) are also provided.

Using the Second Edition? Click here for resources.

Third Edition Sequence:

Unit 1: Collecting Data and Drawing Conclusions

• Data and Variables
• Data and Distributions
• Drawing Conclusions from Studies
• Random Sampling 
• Designing Experiments

Unit 2: Summarizing Data

• Two-Way Tables
• Displaying and Describing Distributions
• Measures of Center
• Measures of Spread
• More Summary Measures and Graphs

Unit 3: Randomness in Data

• Probability
• Normal Distributions
• Sampling Distributions: Proportions
• Sampling Distributions: Means
• Central Limit Theorem

Unit 4: Inference from Data: Principles

• Confidence Intervals: Proportions
• Tests of Significance: Proportions
• More Inference Considerations
• Confidence Intervals: Means
• Tests of Significance: Means

Unit 5: Inference from Data: Comparisons

• Comparing Two Proportions
• Comparing Two Means
• Analyzing Paired Data

Unit 6: Inferences with Categorical Data

• Goodness-of-Fit Tests
• Inference for Two-Way Tables

Unit 7: Relationships in Data

• Graphical Displays of Association
• Correlation Coefficient
• Least Squares Regression
• Inference for Correlation and Regression

Workshop Statistics: Discovery with Data, Third Edition: 978-1-59757-113-5

Workshop Statistics: Discovery with Data and the Graphing Calculator, Third Edition: 978-1-59757-073-2 (Softcover); 978-1-59757-075-6 (Hardcover)

Workshop Statistics: Discovery with Data and Fathom, Third Edition: 978-1-59757-074-9  (Softcover); 978-1-59757-076-3 (Hardcover)

Workshop Statistics: Discovery with Data and Fathom bundled with the Student Bundle Package of Fathom 2.1: 978-1-59757-064-0

Excel Companion to Workshop Statistics: 978-1-59757-066-4

Minitab Companion to Workshop Statistics: 978-1-59757-067-1

JMP Companion to Workshop Statistics: 978-1-59757-068-8

SPSS Companion to Workshop Statistics: 978-1-59757-069-5

AP Guide for Instructors: 978-1-59757-071-8

Instructor Resources: 978-1-59757-070-1

Test Bank for Workshop Statistics: 978-1-59757-072-5

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