Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

David S. Moore's liberal arts statistics text reveals the applications of statistics to a wide range of fields, from public policy to the sciences. The fifth edition introduces new technology and pedagogical features. Supplements available for this text are: Media and Activities supplement; student version of Minitab/Instructor's Guide and Test Bank, Computerized Test Bank, CD-ROM (Windows and Mac on one disk).

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• To the Teacher: Statistics as a Liberal Discipline
• Prelude: Making Sense of Data
• I Producing Data
• 1 Where Do Data Come From?
• 2 Samples, Good and Bad
• 3 What Do Samples Tell Us?
• 4 Sample Surveys in the Real World
• 5 Experiments, Good and Bad
• 6 Experiments in the Real World
• 7 Data Ethics
• 8 Measuring
• 9 Do the Numbers Make Sense?
• Review I: Producing Data
• II Organizing Data
• 10 Graphs Good and Bad
• 11 Displaying Distributions with Graphs
• 12 Describing Distributions with Numbers
• 13 Normal Distributions
• 14 Describing Relationships: Scatterplots and Correlation
• 15 Describing Relationships: Regression, Prediction, and Causation
• 16 The Consumer Price Index and Government Statistics
• Review II: Organizing Data
• III Chance
• 17 Thinking about Chance
• 18 Probability Models
• 19 Simulation
• 20 The House Edge: Expected Values
• Review III: Chance
• IV Inference
• 21 What is a Confidence Interval?
• 22 What is a Test of Significance?
• 23 Use and Abuse of Statistical Inference
• 24 Two-Way Tables and the Chi-square Test
• 25 Inference About a Population Means
• Part IV Review