Help your students think statistically and overcome their apprehension about statistics with Brase, Understanding Basic Statistics, 8th Edition. Clear and concise language is used to present statistical methods, with an emphasis on critical thinking, interpretation, and statistical literacy.
In this 8th Edition, students see the real-world significance of statistics and engage with new features that help them develop critical thinking and statistical literacy skills. The use of the graphing calculator, Microsoft® Excel®, MINITAB®, MINITAB EXPRESS, and SPSS® is covered but not required.
New to this Edition
- More than 700 New WebAssign Questions
- New Examples and Data Sets Support Student Learning
- More than 40% of WebAssign Questions Integrated into SALT
- 344 videos are now available in a video repository including unique links for use in your LMS or elsewhere.
- Available as a Corequisite solution, for no extra cost.
- New Concept Video questions were added to provide students with a concept video along with two to three comprehension questions.
- New SALT Tutorial Questions help your students understand how to use SALT in their WebAssign assignments. Students are provided with scaffolded instruction not only on the content, but how to use SALT to compute and analyze data.
- New Select Your Scenario questions provide students with 3 different contexts to choose from. They select the scenario most relevant to them, and then solve the problem. Regardless of which scenario the student chooses, they will be required to answer questions demonstrating knowledge of a learning objective, making them the perfect questions to assign toward the end of a chapter.
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