Statistics: The Conceptual Approach

This imaginative introduction to statistics reorients the course toward an understanding of statistical thinking and its meaning and utility for students in their daily life and careers. Statistics: The Conceptual Approach emphasizes the process of statistical analysis and what statistics can and cannot do, and carefully presents the ideas of developing statistical and graphical literacy. This text eliminates the usual barriers caused by statistical formulas and lengthy computations encountered by students without strong quantitative skills. Statistics: The Conceptual Approach requires only algebra as a prerequisite and is suitable for students in the liberal arts and the behavioral and social sciences.