Personalize learning with MyStatLab MyStatLab(tm) from Pearson is the world''s leading online resource for teaching and learning statistics; integrating interactive homework, assessment, and media in a flexible, easy-to-use format. MyStatLab is a course management system that delivers improving results in helping individual students succeed. MyStatLab can be implemented successfully in any environment-lab-based, hybrid, fully online, traditional-and demonstrates the quantifiable difference that integrated usage has on student retention, subsequent success, and overall achievement. MyStatLab''s comprehensive online gradebook automatically tracks students'' results on tests, quizzes, and homework and in the study plan. Instructors can use the gradebook to provide positive feedback or intervene if students have trouble. Gradebook data can be easily exported to a variety of spreadsheet programs, such as Microsoft Excel. MyStatLab provides engaging experiences that personalize, stimulate, and measure learning for each student. In addition to the resources below, each course includes a full interactive online version of the accompanying textbook.
Personalized Learning: We now offer your course with an optional focus on adaptive learning to allow your students to work on just what they need to learn when it makes the most sense, to maximize their potential for understanding and success. Tutorial Exercises with Multimedia Learning Aids: The homework and practice exercises in MyStatLab align with the exercises in the textbook, and most regenerate algorithmically to give students unlimited opportunity for practice and mastery. Exercises offer immediate helpful feedback, guided solutions, sample problems, animations, videos, statistical software tutorial videos and eText clips for extra help at point-of-use. MyStatLab Accessibility: MyStatLab is compatible with the JAWS screen reader, and enables multiple-choice and free-response problem-types to be read and interacted with via keyboard controls and math notation input. MyStatLab also works with screen enlargers, including ZoomText, MAGic, and SuperNova. And all MyStatLab videos accompanying texts with copyright 2009 and later have closed captioning. More information on this functionality is available at http://mymathlab.com/accessibility.
StatTalk Videos: Fun-loving statistician Andrew Vickers takes to the streets of Brooklyn, NY, to demonstrate important statistical concepts through interesting stories and real-life events. This series of 24 fun and engaging videos will help students actually understand statistical concepts. Available with an instructor''s user guide and assessment questions. Additional Question Libraries: In addition to algorithmically regenerated questions that are aligned with your textbook, MyStatLab courses come with two additional question libraries. 450 exercises in Getting Ready for Statistics cover the developmental math topics students need for the course. These can be assigned as a prerequisite to other assignments, if desired. 1000 exercises in the Conceptual Question Library require students to apply their statistical understanding. StatCrunch(tm): MyStatLab integrates the web-based statistical software, StatCrunch, within the online assessment platform so that students can easily analyze data sets from exercises and the text.
In addition, MyStatLab includes access to www.StatCrunch.com ,a vibrant online community where users can access tens of thousands of shared data sets, create and conduct online surveys, perform complex analyses using the powerful statistical software, and generate compelling reports. Statistical Software Support and Integration: We make it easy to copy our data sets, both from the eText and the MyStatLab questions, into software such as StatCrunch, Minitab, Excel, and more. Students have access to a variety of support tools-Technology Tutorial Videos, Technology Study Cards, and Technology Manuals for select titles-to learn how to effectively use statistical software. And, MyStatLab comes from an experienced partner with educational expertise and an eye on the future. Knowing that you are using a Pearson product means knowing that you are using quality content. That means that our eTexts are accurate and our assessment tools work.
It means we are committed to making MyStatLab as accessible as possible. Whether you are just getting started with MyStatLab or have a question along the way, we''re here to help you learn about our technologies and how to incorporate them into your course. To learn more about how MyStatLab combines proven learning applications with powerful assessment, visit www.mystatlab.com or contact your Pearson representative. Data Analysis and Problem Solving NEW! Exercise sets have been expanded with hundreds of new exercises and now feature an improved arrangement. They progress in difficulty from basic questions to complex, multi-step exercises that ask the student to synthesize and incorporate the ideas they''ve learned from previous chapters. Answers are provided for odd-numbered exercises.
Emphasis on data analysis encourages the use of technology to analyze data, so students focus on asking the right questions, critically analyzing results, and drawing appropriate conclusions. Instructions are provided for major statistical packages. The Think, Show, Tell approach to problem solving teaches students how to think statistically, show proper application of techniques, and tell others what they have learned. These step-by-step examples guide students through the problem with both a general explanation alongside the worked-out solution. NEW! Think/Show/Tell examples have been updated with new applications and data. These examples have been reworked so that each example begins with a clear question, and ends with a conclusion that answers the stated question. Math Boxes provide proofs, derivations, and formulas so that students can refer to the underlying mathematics for enhanced understanding. The authors consistently discuss the Assumptions and Conditions necessary to perform a particular test, make a certain calculation, or arrive at an interpretation or conclusion in the worked examples and exercises.
NEW! Current data ensures that this book remains relevant to students and their interests. Most of the data used in examples and exercises are real and have been updated for the new edition. Data come from author experience, news stories and recent research articles. Whenever possible, the data are on the DVD so students can explore them further. Real-Life Problems and Solutions Where Are We Going? chapter openers begin each chapter with a real-life example. This feature demonstrates how the material fits in with what students already learned and prepares them for upcoming statistical concepts. What Can Go Wrong? discussions in each chapter address common misuses and misunderstandings of statistics to arm students with the tools to detect statistical errors and debunk misuses of statistics. What Have We Learned? summaries highlight concepts, terms, and skills that the student has learned in the chapter.
Just Checking questions in each chapter ask students to pause and think about what they''ve read to ensure that they understand the material presented thus far. Answers are at the end of the chapter. NEW! For Example illustrative examples embedded throughout the chapter show how to apply concepts and methods discussed in the text. With about four new examples per chapter, there are more than 100 new examples in this edition. Pointers, Notes, and Lectures from the Authors ActivStats Pointers throughout the text indicate where ActivStats activities complement and enhance the discussions presented in the book. Marginal Notation Alerts are included throughout the text to explain how to properly use the related statistical notation. The DVD-ROM included in every new copy of the book includes the following multimedia features: o ActivStats®, a multimedia presentation of statistics that encourages students to explore, interact, and learn statistical concepts through video, animation, simulations, interactive activities, exercises, and hundreds of data sets in addition to interactive training on Data Desk. o A complete statistics package (student version of Data Desk®), and an Excel® add-in (DDXL).
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