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<b>KEY BENEFIT</b> <b><i>Statistics: Informed Decisions Using Data</i>, Fifth Edition</b>, gives students the tools to see a bigger picture and make informed choices. As a current introductory statistics instructor, Mike Sullivan III presents a text that is filled with ideas and strategies that work in today's classroom. His practical emphasis resonates with students and helps them see that statistics is connected, not only to individual concepts, but also with the world at large. <b>KEY TOPICS</b> GETTING THE INFORMATION YOU NEED; Data Collection; DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS; Organizing and Summarizing Data; Numerically Summarizing Data; Describing the Relation between Two Variables; PROBABILITY AND PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; Probability; Discrete Probability Distributions; The Normal Probability Distribution; INFERENCE: FROM SAMPLES TO POPULATION; Sampling Distributions; Estimating the Value of a Parameter; Hypothesis Tests Regarding a Parameter; Inferences on Two Samples; Inference on Ca