Statistics: Informed Decisions Using Data

Key differences between 5th and 4th editions

• Time lapse between latest and previous publications: 4 years (2016 vs 2012).
• Sullivan's Statistics textbook was first published in 2003.
• More than 350 of exercises are new or updated.
• More than 100 of examples are new or updated.
• Classroom activities and applet activities have been updated and are now collected in a new Student Activity Workbook.
• Chapter 12: new section on inference methods for comparing two population proportions when the two samples are dependent.
• Chapter 14: new section on:
• Dummy variables and interaction.
• Polynomial regression, a case of multiple linear regression.
• The steps necessary for statistical model building.