authoritative and balanced presentation of topics in statistics, featuring supportive pedagogy, applied examples and an emphasis on technology. The organization and design of the 5th edition has been improved, the content has been updated to reflect today’s trends and research, and coverage of engaging, real-world topics is included.

Relationships
Scatterplots and Correlation
Regression
Two-Way Tables
Exploring Data: Part I Review
PART II: FROM EXPLORATION TO INFERENCE
Producing Data
Producing Data: Sampling
Producing Data: Experiments
Commentary: Data Ethics
Probability and Sampling Distributions
Introducing Probability
Sampling Distributions
General Rules of Probability
Binomial Distributions
Foundations of Inference
Introduction to Inference
Thinking About Inference
From Exploration to Inference: Part II Review
PART III: INFERENCE ABOUT VARIABLES
Quantitative Response Variable
Inference About a Population Mean
Two-Sample Problems
Categorical Response Variable
Inference About a Population Proportion
Comparing Two Proportions
Inference About Variables: Part III Review
PART IV: INFERENCE ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS
Inference About Relationships
Two Categorical Variables: The Chi-Square Test
Inference for Regression
One-Way Analysis of Variance: Comparing Several Means
PART V: OPTIONAL COMPANION CHAPTERS
Nonparametric Tests
Statistical Process Control
Multiple Regression
Two-Way Analysis of Variance