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With a clear and engaging writing style and strong examples from the real world, this text covers current statistical techniques at an introductory level and emphasizes the clear presentation of results for a variety of audiences, making the course more useful to students and their careers. Interconnection features among chapters help students understand how all of the techniques fit together. Using varied data sets, this companion website includes videos of the author offering step-by-step explanations of how to carry out the techniques, interpret the results, and present them to varied audiences.

Features include:

• Engaging Animations of Key Concepts
• Dynamic Demonstrations of How Statistics Change in Line with the Data
• Short Lectures on Difficult-to-Explain Topics
• In-Class Exercises Targeted to Help Students Make Sense out of Statistical Results