The Practice of Statisticsis the only high school statistics textbook that directly reflects the College Board course description for AP Statistics. Combining the data analysis approach with the power of technology, innovative pedagogy, and a number of new features, the Third Edition is the most effective yet.

What is Statistics? - PART I: ANALYZING DATA: LOOKING FOR PATTERNS AND DEPARTURES FROM PATTERNS - Exploring Data - Describing Location in a Distribution - Examining Relationships - More about Relationships between Two Variables - PART II: PRODUCING DATA: SURVEYS, OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES, AND EXPERIMENTS - Producing Data - PART III: PROBABILITY AND RANDOM VARIABLES: FOUNDATIONS FOR INFERENCE - Probability and Simulation: The Study of Randomness - Random Variables - The Binominal and Geometric Distributions - Sampling Distributions - PART IV: INFERENCE: CONCLUSIONS WITH CONFIDENCE - Estimating with Confidence - Testing a Claim - Significance Tests in Practice - Comparing Two Population Parameters - Inference for Distribution of Categorical Variables: Chi-Square - Inference for Regression - Post Exam Topics (on CD but not in book) - Analysis of Variance - Multiple Regression - Logistic Regression