Rossman A.J., Chance B.L. Investigating Statistical Concepts, Applications, and Methods

3rd ed. — Chance/Rossman, 2018. — 427 p.In these materials, our goal is to introduce you to this practice of statistics, to help you think about the applications of statistics and to study the mathematical underpinnings of the statistical methods. Most of all, we hope you will find fun and engaging examples. Statistics is a vitally important subject, and also fun to study and practice, largely because it brings you into contact with all kinds of interesting questions. You will analyze data from medical studies, legal cases, psychology experiments, sociological studies, and many other contexts. To paraphrase the late statistician John Tukey, “the best thing about statistics is that it allows you to play in everyone else’s backyard.” You never know what you might learn in a statistics class!