elcome to Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World,
Fifth Edition. You will find that this textbook is written
with a balance of rigor and simplicity. It combines stepby-step instruction, real-life examples and exercises,
carefully developed features, and technology that makes
statistics accessible to all.
We are grateful for the overwhelming acceptance of the
first four editions. It is gratifying to know that our vision
of combining theory, pedagogy, and design to exemplify
how statistics is used to picture and describe the world
has helped students learn about statistics and make
informed decisions.
WHAT’S NEW IN THIS EDITION
The goal of the Fifth Edition was a thorough update of
the key features, examples, and exercises:
Examples This edition includes more than 210 examples, approximately 50% of which are new or revised.
Exercises Approximately 50% of the more than 2100
exercises are new or revised. We’ve also added 75 conceptual and critical thinking exercises throughout the text.
StatCrunch® Examples New to this edition are
more than 50 StatCrunch Reports. These interactive
reports, called out in the book with the icon,
provide step-by-step instructions for how to use the
online statistical software StatCrunch to solve the examples. Note: Accessing these reports requires a MyStatLab
or StatCrunch account.
StatCrunch Exercises New to this edition are more
than 80 exercises that instruct students to solve the exercise using StatCrunch. This allows students to practice
the software skills learned in the StatCrunch Examples.
Note: Solving the exercises using StatCrunch requires a
MyStatLab or StatCrunch account.
Extensive Feature Updates Approximately 50%
of the following key features have been replaced, making
this edition fresh and relevant to today’s students:
• Chapter Openers
• Case Studies
• Putting It All Together: Real Statistics—Real
Decisions
Revised Content The following sections have been
changed:
• Section 2.2, More Graphs and Displays, now
defines misleading graphs.
• Section 2.5, Measures of Position, now defines the
modified boxplot.