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