This publication is a completely online, interactive statistics textbook. It is the primary text for a college or advanced placement high school statistics course. The publication offers many places for students to interact and engage with the text including clickable flash cards, examples and solutions, int-text short answer questions, and chapter quizzes. The students get immediate feedback when submitting answers, so they can learn from their own mistakes.
The publication covers general statistics concepts such as sampling and variability, common distributions, including binomial and normal distributions, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing for means.
Together, Angela and Mike embarked on this task of creating an introductory statistics textbook, with the hope it would present all of the topics necessary in an introductory course without trying to do too much. The focus is more on the interpretation of results, and less on the gritty details of the computations. Formulas are provided, but reliance on software and graphing calculators is demonstrated and encouraged. Realizing that students today are less likely to read a textbook word for word, explanations are intended to get quickly to the point, without sacrificing the root understanding.
Angela and Mike would like to acknowledge the work and assistance of Samer Almughamsi and Hadeel Sabbagh who assisted with the project. Their efforts helped both the authors and publisher continue to build and refine the textbook.
Chapter 1: Introduction to Data and Data Collection
Chapter 2: Organizing and Describing the Data
Chapter 3: Numerical Descriptions of the Data
Chapter 4: Regression
Chapter 5: Probability
Chapter 6: Discrete Probability Distributions
Chapter 7: The Normal Distribution
Chapter 8: The Central Limit Theorem
Chapter 9: Making Inference About a Population when Working with One Sample
Chapter 10: Working with Two Samples