Features and Benefits
Engage and motivate students through real data.
UPDATED - Real data—In the 14th Edition, the vast majority of exercises, examples, and Chapter Problems are based on real data to make the course as relevant as possible. For instance, 93% of the exercises use real data, showing students that statistics truly are all around us, and 64% of exercises are new to the 14th edition, keeping the problems current.
REVISED - 46 data sets, available in Appendix B and the MyMathLab for School, are referenced throughout the exercise sets, marked with a data set icon. Using these data sets help students gain statistical literacy and teach them to apply the same methodology and thought processes used by professional statisticians.
Expanded data sets in Appendix B have increased from 32 to 46 total, with 20 new to the14th Edition—including Internet Traffic, Disney World Wait Times, Car Data, Commute Times, Candies, and Taxi Data.
Larger data sets include data sets with 6068, 3982, 5755, 8959, and 1000 cases, as well as big data sets with 465,506 cases and 31,784 cases. Working with such larger data sets is essential to students progressing into the age of big data and data science.
NEW - Big (or Very Large) Data Projects are located near the end of each chapter.
UPDATED - A Chapter Problem opens each chapter, using real data to motivate students about the concepts they’re about to learn. Chapter Problems are revisited within the chapter. All Chapter Problems have been replaced with new problems in the 14th Edition.
NEW - Chapter Problem icons (marked with a CP) indicate examples that relate to the Chapter Problem, demonstrating how different statistical concepts and procedures can be applied to the real-world issue highlighted in the Chapter.
REVISED - Margin Essays—134 margin essays highlight real-world topics and foster student interest. 36 are new to this edition. Also, many Go Figure items briefly describe interesting numbers or statistics.
Give students the fundamentals they need to apply procedures, interpret data, and develop statistical thinking.
Readability is paramount in this text. Great care is taken to ensure that all students can find the text readable and applicable.
Chapter Objectives summarize key learning goals for each section in the chapter.
Your Turn feature in many examples directs students to an applicable exercise so that they can immediately practice what they just learned in an example.
Flowcharts throughout the text help to simplify and clarify more complex concepts and procedures in a visual way. New animated and narrated versions of the text’s flow charts and associated homework are assignable in MyMathLab for School, breaking down difficult concepts and allowing students to gain stronger statistical thinking.
End of chapter features not only reinforce skills and concepts, but also ask students to think critically.
Chapter Quick Quiz, Review Exercises, and Cumulative Review provide the all-important practice students need to retain what they’ve learned.
Other features ask students to think more conceptually. Collaborative Group Activities foster active learning, and From Data to Decision is a capstone problem for the chapter that requires critical thinking and writing.
The Student Workbook offers additional examples, concept exercises, and vocabulary exercises for each chapter, available in print or to download in the MyMathLab for School course. Full solutions are available for instructors. Integrated Review Worksheets are also included in the Student Workbook.
Encourage the development of conceptual understanding for data analysis—a recommendation from the GAISE standards—with statistical software and technology. A variety of statistical technologies are integrated throughout the text, and support for each helps students at point-of-use.
Sections end with a new Tech Center subsection, where appropriate, that includes new technology-specific videos and detailed instructions for statistical software.
NEW - New technology is integrated throughout. R and Google Sheets are included as an additional technology in the end-of-section Tech Centers where appropriate.
The technologies of Statdisk, Minitab®, Excel®, StatCrunch®, and TI-83/84 Plus® calculators continue to be included in the Tech Centers.
Statdisk is a free and robust browser-based statistical program designed specifically for this book. This is the only statistics textbook with dedicated and comprehensive statistics software. This can be downloaded at the author’s site – TriolaStats.com, or at pearsonhighered.com/triola.
A Technology Project is included with the end-of-chapter features.
Many screen displays appear throughout the book, and some exercises are based on displayed results from technology.
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Empower students to understand the fundamentals of statistics
Address preparedness with Integrated Review in the MyMathLab for School, which embeds prerequisite review which can be used for just-in-time remediation, or for corequisite course models.
Pre-made Skills Check quizzes assess prerequisite skills needed to be successful in the Statistics content, and identify gaps for each student.
Videos, worksheets, and personalized practice offer just-in-time remediation on the prerequisite skills each student is missing. Each student receives just the help they need on prerequisite skills – no more, no less.
REVISED – The 14th edition MyMathLab for School course includes enhanced Integrated Review exercises that now include instruction within the exercises themselves, giving students remediation on prerequisite skills in the context of their homework and how it will apply to their Statistics coursework. The review homework includes videos and worksheets as learning aids for relevant exercises to give students remediation right where they need it.
Integrated Review Skills Checks and Personalized Homeworks are premade and can be assigned in the Assignment Manager.
REVISED - A comprehensive video program supports students at every turn, from understanding fundamental concepts to making use of statistical software.
New Animated Flow Charts bring the flow charts from the book to life. These also can now be assigned with new exercises in the MyMathLab for School, assessing students’ understanding.
Updated Chapter Review Videos cover Review Exercises, helping students to understand key chapter concepts. These have been updated to match any new Review Exercises in the text.
Section Lecture Videos work through examples and elaborate on key objectives of the chapter.
Chapter Test Videos are available for each chapter test problem in complete, worked-out video solutions either solved by hand, using the TI-84C, or StatCrunch.
Engage students through real data and built-in statistical software in MyMathLab for School
UPDATED - Real-World Data Examples, extensively updated for the 14th Edition, help students understand how statistics applies to everyday life. In the MyMathLab for School, all data sets are available for easy download for any statistical software.
StatCrunch: MyMathLab for School integrates the web-based statistical software, StatCrunch, within the online assessment platform so that students can easily analyze data sets from exercises and the text. In addition, MyMathLab for School includes access to www.StatCrunch.com, a vibrant online community where users can access tens of thousands of shared data sets, create and conduct online surveys, perform complex analyses using the powerful statistical software, and generate compelling reports.
Support for statistical software is integrated throughout the entire MyMathLab for School, giving you choice in which technology you may want to incorporate.
Tech-Specific Video Tutorials are short, topical videos that address how to use varying technologies to complete exercises.
NEW - StatCrunch now has video tutorials available in the course, in addition to the videos that support other technologies such as Excel and Minitab.
The use of technology when analyzing data is supported directly in students’ MyMathLab for School homework.
When working any exercise that includes a data set, students can export that data easily in a single click, which minimizes their time doing data entry and keeps their focus on solving the problem.
Exercises marked with a "-T" assume the use of technology throughout the exercise and accompanying learning aids, and those marked with “-E” assume the use of Microsoft Excel.
A "Tech Help" button gives access to Technology Tutorial videos for all MyMathLab for School exercises that require it. These videos are appropriate for any software.
New, current data and expanded features ensure that students will not only learn the statistical concepts and procedures, but that they’ll be motivated to do so.
Updated or new real data—The 14th Edition includes approximately 64% new exercises, 58% new examples, and 100% new Chapter Problems. The vast majority of these are based on real data – 93% of exercises are based on real data, and 94% of examples – to motivate students and show them statistics really is in the world around us.
Expanded data sets in Appendix B have increased from 32 to 46 total, with 20 new to the 14th Edition—including Internet Traffic, Disney World Wait Times, Car Data, Commute Times, Candies, and Taxi Data. These data sets are referenced throughout the text, and can be downloaded from MyLab Statistics.
This edition also includes larger data sets, which is essential to students progressing into the age of “big data” and data science. This includes data sets with 6068, 3982, 5755, 8959, and 1000 cases, as well as big data sets with 465,506 cases and 31,784 cases.
New Big (or Very Large) Data Projects are new to this edition, located near the end of each chapter.
Additional Margin Essays - 36 new ones – have been added to the 14th edition. This feature highlights real-world topics to foster student interest.
New Chapter Problem icon—Examples that relate to the Chapter Problem are now highlighted with a special icon, to show how different statistical concepts and procedures can be applied to the real-world issue highlighted in the Chapter.
New Cumulative Review Exercises near the end of Chapters 9, 10, and 11 foster development of students’ critical thinking. These are open-ended questions which present students with a data set, and ask them to pose a key question relevant to the data, identify a procedure for addressing that question, then analyzing the data to form a conclusion.
Content changes
The prior edition introduced the resampling method of bootstrapping in Section 7-4. The revision now includes additional methods of resampling using bootstrapping and randomization.
New Section 4-5: Simulations for Hypothesis Tests
New Resampling Methods: Resampling methods are new to Sections 8-2, 8-3, 8-4, 8-5, 9-5, and 10-1.
New Section 8-5: Resampling: Using Technology for Hypothesis Tests
New Section 9-5: Randomization: Using Technology for Hypothesis Tests
New Subsection 10-1, Part 3: Randomization Test for Correlation
New Chapter 15: Holistic Statistics
Removed content for Section 6-6 (Normal as Approximation to Binomial) from the text; now available for download in MyLab Statistics or pearson.com/math-stats-resources.
Removed section on Ethics in Statistics from Chapter 15 to Section 1-4, and is available for download in MyLab Statistics or pearson.com/math-stats-resources.
Technology changes
Statdisk is updated to include new methods of resampling using bootstrapping and randomization. It also is now available as Statdisk Online, a web-based version.
New technology:
Rand Google Sheets are included as an additional technology in the end-of-section Tech Centers where appropriate.
The technologies of Statdisk, Excel, StatCrunch, Minitab, and TI-83>84 Plus calculators continue to be included in the Tech Centers.
