As the catalog of resources on the Internet grows, the opportunities for learning expand, as do the difficulty of evaluating Websites. THE INTERNET COMPANION FOR STATISTICS, Second Edition, provides educators and students with an organized, clear, and reliable interface to the Internet. An excellent accompaniment to a main text, this book includes numerous examples and exercises that refer to motivating online material related directly to specific topics covered in the introductory statistics course. Helpful exercises include numerical, short answer, and expository problems related to the appropriate Websites as listed in the book. On the accompanying Book Companion Website, you will find regularly updated links, as well as additional resources for quickly and effectively integrating the Internet into your Introductory Statistics course. Access to the website is also available using the Student's Suite CD-ROMs that accompany many of our bestselling introductory statistics titles.

Key Feature

• This text covers four major topics of statistics: 1) Descriptive Statistics; 2) Probability; 3) Research Design; and 4) Statistical Inference.
• The modules in the text follow a consistent format. After a summary of each topic, the book presents links to websites for students to explore, as well as study questions based on completing an activity on the Website.
• To facilitate students' conceptual development of statistics, the book presents Websites that involve the exploration of data and interpretation of output, rather than computation and the memorization of formulas.
• There are two types of exercises in the text, both of which are linked to a Website. The first type of exercise helps students read or access a Website; the second type is more open-ended and asks students to write about a concept and discuss what they learned in exploring that particular Website.
• Consistent with ideas of authentic assessment, the book's assignments ask students to look at specific material (e.g., a newspaper article, dataset, or Website) and report based on numerical and statistical information.
• A fully functional and completely updated Book Companion Website includes the links to additional Websites (including interactive sites and sites that perform simulations), research articles, and datasets.
• The book is completely integrated with InfoTrac College Edition, giving students access to over 4,000 periodicals and tens of thousands of journal articles and popular press items.