Activity-Based Statistics, Student Guide [Paperback]

Activity-Based Statistics helps build real statistical understanding through a set of innovative hands-on activities that can be used each day in conjunction with other texts. The second edition continues to emphasize discovery by motivating readers to apply the skills they have learned to discover the everyday relevance of statistics. There are over 45 activities and five long-term projects that have been updated and extended to encourage readers to experience statistics in context. While the second edition includes updated technology extensions for Fathom, technology is used throughout the book to extend activities and is not required to complete them.Preface.

To the Student.

Acknowledgments.

I. EXPLORING DATA.

A Living Histogram.

How to build a histogram out of people.

Getting to Know the Class.

Surveying the class. Exploratory data analysis. Displaying categorical and
quantitative data.

A Living Box Plot.

How to construct a box-and-whisker plot with people. Shape, center, and spread.

V Is for Variation: How Far Are You from the Mean?

Measuring variability in data.

Matching Plots to Variables.

Connecting our knowledge of real-life distributions to their graphs.

Matching Statistics to Plots.

Matching summary statistics to graphs of distributions. How the mean can differ
from the median.

Variation in Measurement.

Collecting measurement data and looking at its distribution.

Measurement Bias.

Experiencing measurement bias.

Let Us Count.

Variation due to the process of measurement.

Matching Descriptions to Scatter Plots.