Stats: Data and Models, Third Canadian Edition (3rd Edition)

So, What’s New in This Edition?
We’ve scrutinized literally every sentence and paragraph throughout the book, and rewritten many sections to make them clearer and more interesting, along with introducing some new up-to-the-minute motivating examples.
We’ve added some new features, each with the goal of making it even easier for students to put the concepts of Statistics together into a coherent whole.
1. New and improved pedagogical tools: We’ve replaced the list of sections at the start of each chapter with a more informative list of Learning Objectives. We’ve also replaced Where Are We Going with Connections, while deleting the similarly named item that used to sit (we believe, almost invisibly) at the end of chapters in earlier editions. Chapter study materials at the end of chapters still include What Have We Learned including the Review of Terms. Students who understand the latter items are well prepared for future chapters (not to mention well on their way to being ready for any tests).
2. Streamlined content: Our reorganization has shortened the book from 30 to 29 chapters (Chapter 29 is only available as part of the eText in MyLabTM Statistics).
We’ve also grouped some important concepts, in new and better presentation orders. Each chapter is still a focused discussion, and most can be taught in one lesson.
Preface
1and our footnotes.3. Content changes: Here’s how we’ve reorganized or changed the content:
a. We’ve reorganized material in Chapter 3: Displaying and Summarizing Quantitative Data. Instead of measures of centre followed by measures of spread, we start with the more intuitive measures: median, IQR, and 5-number
summary, followed later by the mean and standard deviation.
b. We’ve removed the chapter Understanding Randomness, while moving its section on Random Numbers into the following chapter on Sample Surveys.
c. We’ve tried to improve the organization of material in Parts V–VII:
• Inference About Means appears earlier now, in Part V. We still lead the discussion of inference with inference for proportions (for reasons we explain in the Test Bank and Resource Guide), but now we turn sooner to inference
for means so students can see the methods side by side. Students can then also see that the reasoning is essentially the same.
• Comparing Two Proportions was moved from Part V to Part VI, so that it now follows the similar discussion for comparing two means, with the chapter on chi-square tests immediately after.
• Inference for Regression was moved from Part VII to Part VI, where it more logically belongs, though in the same chapter order as before.
d. We’ve added an optional section on the Regression ANOVA to the Inference for Regression chapter.
4. Section Exercises: A new feature of this edition is the inclusion of Section Exercises. In addition to the usual end-of-chapter exercises, at the end of each section, you will now find these new single-concept exercises.
5. Exercises: We’ve updated most exercises that use real-world data, retired some that were getting old, and added new exercises. As in previous editions, many of the exercises feature Canadian content and data with up-to-date references to
Indigenous peoples, sports, health care, education, the environment, and other social and political issues.