Stats: Modeling the World |  | Authors: David E. Bock, Paul F. Velleman, Richard D. De Veaux
Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Category: Book
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 36627
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 2
Reading Level: Young Adult
Pages: 680
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.3
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 8 x 1.2
ISBN: 013187621X
Dewey Decimal Number: 519.5
EAN: 9780131876217
Publication Date: February 6, 2006
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By leading with practical data analysis and graphics, Stats: Modeling the World gets students “doing statistics” and “thinking statistically” from the start. Students understand what we find in data, why we find it interesting, and how we report it to others as a sound foundation for the challenges of inference. Instructors praise Stats Modeling the World as clear and accessible to students, and students report that they enjoy reading the text while learning how to do Statistics with the Think, Show,and Tell rubric and What Can Go Wrong? sections.
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 specially tailored for the AP July 10, 2007
Freston (USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you are teaching AP Statistics to a competent high school group, this book was written for you. Literally. It was written with the AP exam in mind. The second edition has even been changed largely with a view to reflecting the recent minor changes in that exam.
So the authors' terminology, their practice exercises, their equations, and -- most importantly -- the range and depth they marshal correspond exactly to the level students must master to score well on the AP Statistics exam.
Further, it has been very slickly brought off and is readable and entertaining. At least as much as possible, given that some tedium lies ahead for students who wish to land a 4 or 5 on said exam.
It goes without saying that neither the explanations nor the example exercises summon the specters of integration or differentiation, but some of the end-of-chapter exercises can be easily ratcheted up to this level by an imaginative instructor.
Some of the sidebar readings in some of the chapters, however, do anticipate mathematical statistics. But it's up to you how deeply you want to spell out the mathematical implications of these readings.
Since this book contains many questions that aren't answered except in materials available only to instructors, I wouldn't recommend it for self-study. It would probably prove too frustrating.
On that head, there are plenty and plenty of resources available for the instructor that chooses this book, such as the AP* Test Prep Workbook for Stats: Modeling the World, 2nd Edition and the highly useful Graphing Calculator Manual: Intro Stats: For the TI-83 Plus, TI-84 Plus, and TI-89.
ABSORB THIS BOOK---PLEASE.. April 17, 2008
Edwin D. Crawford (Fairview, Oregon)
IF YOU WILL JUST CAREFULLY READ THIS BOOK IN YOUR HIGH SCHOOL COURSE,,,,YOUR JOURNEY IN THE NEXT COLLEGE COURSE WILL BE SO MUCH EASIER..
TRUST ME,,,,I HAVE BEEN THERE...
 Decent book but Amazon description does not indicate the inclusion of ActivStats (which it does come with) June 10, 2008
K. Smithson (Port Angeles, WA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The book itself is good and relatively easy to understand. It is not a book that you can just learn statistics on your own with and it does help to have a teacher to guide you through but it is an easy read.
I purchased this book for a statistics course and also needed a software package called ActivStats. other book stores couple the two in a package but no where on this description did it say it included ActivStats. As a result, I purchased the software for $30 from Amazon as well. I received both of them and had two versions of ActivStats (it does come with this book) so had to send one back for barely a 1/3 refund because its software and because technically it was my mistake (even if Amazon did not mention the cd being included with the book).
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