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UPDATED Version of The Practice of Statistics

Sixth  Edition©2020  Daren S. Starnes; Josh Tabor

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Everything students need to be successful in the AP® Statistics course is available with The Updated Practice of Statistics, Sixth Edition. Using the same style, nomenclature, and language used on the AP® Statistics exam, the text utilizes technology to provide extensive support  for students as they learn the content they really need to know to succeed in the course and on the exam.

Table of Contents

Unit 1: Exploring One-Variable Data
Chapter 1: Data Analysis
Chapter 2: Modeling Distributions of Quantitative Data

Unit 2: Exploring Two-Variable Data 
Chapter 3: Exploring Two-Variable Quantitative Data

Unit 3: Collecting Data
Chapter 4: Collecting Data

Unit 4: Probability, Random Variables, and Probability Distributions
Chapter 5: Probability
Chapter 6: Random Variables and Probability Distributions

Unit 5: Sampling Distributions
Chapter 7: Sampling Distributions

Unit 6: Inference for Categorical Data: Proportions
Chapter 8: Estimating Proportions with Confidence
Chapter 9: Testing Claims about Proportions

Unit 7: Inference for Quantitative Data: Means  
Chapter 10: Estimating Means with Confidence
Chapter 11: Testing Claims about Means

Unit 8: Inference for Categorical Data: Chi-Square
Unit 9: Inference for Quantitative Data: Slopes  
Chapter 12: Inference for Distributions and Relationships 

Daren S. Starnes

Daren S. Starnes is Mathematics Department Chair and holds the Robert S. and Christina Seix Dow Distinguished Master Teacher Chair in Mathematics at The Lawrenceville School near Princeton, New Jersey. He earned his MA in Mathematics from the University of Michigan and his BS in Mathematics from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Daren is also an alumnus of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. Daren has led numerous one-day and weeklong AP® Statistics institutes for new and experienced teachers, and he has been a Reader, Table Leader, and Question Leader for the AP® Statistics exam since 1998. Daren is a frequent speaker at local, state, regional, national, and international conferences. He has written articles for The Mathematics Teacher and CHANCE magazine. From 2004 to 2009, Daren served on the ASA/NCTM Joint Committee on the Curriculum in Statistics and Probability (which he chaired in 2009). While on the committee, he edited the Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education (GAISE) pre-K–12 report and coauthored (with Roxy Peck) Making Sense of Statistical Studies, a capstone module in statistical thinking for high school students. Daren is also coauthor of the popular on-level text Statistics and Probability with Applications.

Josh Tabor

Josh Tabor has enjoyed teaching on-level and AP® Statistics to high school students for more than 23 years, most recently at his alma mater, Canyon del Oro High School in Oro Valley, Arizona. He received a BS in Mathematics from Biola University, in La Mirada, California. In recognition of his outstanding work as an educator, Josh was named one of the five finalists for Arizona Teacher of the Year in 2011. He is a past member of the AP® Statistics Development Committee (2005–2009) and has been a Reader, Table Leader, and Question Leader at the AP® Statistics Reading since 1999. In 2013, Josh was named to the SAT® Mathematics Development Committee. Each year, Josh leads one-week AP® Summer Institutes and College Board workshops around the world and frequently speaks at local, national, and international conferences. In addition to teaching and speaking, Josh has published articles in The American Statistician, The Mathematics Teacher, STATS Magazine, and The Journal of Statistics Education. He is the coauthor with Daren Starnes of two other popular statistics textbooks, The Practice of Statistics for the AP® Exam, Sixth Edition, and Statistics and Probability with Applications, Third Edition, for on-level statistics. Outside of work, Josh enjoys gardening, traveling, and playing board games with his family.