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Designed to engage students in the ``how'' and ``why'' of the data analyzing process rather than merely the ``what.'' Uses actual examples of analyses of real data. Each case is motivated by a question which needs to be answered and is presented with complete background material. The statistical analysis flows naturally from the question, encouraging students to understand the methods in order to reach a meaningful conclusion.

Content

Partial table of contents:

DATA ANALYSIS.

International Adoption Rates.

The Performance of Stock Mutual Funds.

Predicting the Sales and Airplay of Popular Music.

Health Care Spending in the United States.

APPLIED PROBABILITY.

The Flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger.

Random Drug and Disease Testing.

The Sampling Distribution for the Median.

The Sampling Distribution for the Standard Deviation.

STATISTICAL INFERENCE.

Volume and Weight from a Vineyard Harvest.

The Return on Stocks in the New York Stock Exchange.

Reporting of Sexual Partners by Men and Women.

Air Bags and Types of Automobiles.

ANALYSIS INVOLVING REGRESSION.

Purchasing Power Parity: Is It True?.

PCB Contamination of U.S.

Bays and Estuaries.

Estimating Rates of Return of Investments.

Subgroups in the Electricity Consumption Data.

The Birth of a Beluga Whale.

Appendix.

Index.