Statistics and Probability in Modern Life

This text is suitable for an introductory statistics and probability course and is both readable and appealing to students. Newmark’s text uses the popular MINITAB Statistical Software package to help students manipulate and compute the statistics. Topics include frequency distributions, histograms, frequency polygons, measures of central tendency and dispersion, the normal curve, hypothesis testing, linear correlation and regression. Using real data from newspaper and magazine articles. Newmark presents ideas in a language and style that keeps students constantly involved in the learning process.