1. Real-World Examples illustrate every concept discussed in the text with detailed, compelling examples from real life.

　　2. Real Data Sources help students see the integration of statistics in everyday life. Neil Weiss has included carefully cited data from reputable journals, newspapers, magazines and Web sites.

　　3. Helpful text features help readers make sense of the material and provide easy reference for study and review.( Interpretation Boxes、What Does It Mean?、Procedure Boxes、Technology Appendices)

　　4. Parallel Critical-Value/p-Value Approaches offers complete flexibility in the coverage of critical-value and p-value approaches to hypothesis testing. Instructors can focus on one approach or they can compare both approaches.

　　5. Parallel Presentations of Technology: The Weiss approach offers complete flexibility in the coverage of technology which includes options for the use of Minitab, Excel, and the TI-83 and TI-84 Plus graphing calculators. One or more technologies can be explored and compared. Instructions and output for each package are included in Technology Centers throughout the book.

　　6. The WeissStats CD-ROM bound inside every new copy of the textbook includes applets, an optional text chapter that presents additional probability and random-variable topics, an introduction to statistical technologies, and DDXL?, an Excel add in. Data sets are provided as text, Minitab, Excel, JMP?, and SPSS? files, as well as in the TI-83/84 Plus graphing calculator list files.

　　7. Focusing on Data Analysis sections at the end of each chapter examine the Focus Database, a database of 13 variables for the undergraduate students at the University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire. This feature lets students work with large data sets, practice using technology, and discover the many methods of exploring and analyzing data–both descriptively and inferentially.

作者简介

Neil A. Weiss
　　现职：Arizona State University

PART I: INTRODUCTION
Ch 1 The Nature of Statistics

PART II: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS
Ch 2 Organizing Data
Ch 3 Descriptive Measures
Ch 4 Descriptive Methods in Regression and Correlation

PART III: PROBABILITY, RANDOM VARIABLES, AND SAMPLING DISTRIBUTIONS
Ch 5 Probability and Random Variables
Ch 6 The Normal Distribution
Ch 7 The Sampling Distribution of the Sample Mean

PART IV: INFERENTIAL STATISTICS
Ch 8 Confidence Intervals for One Population Mean
Ch 9 Hypothesis Tests for One Population Mean
Ch10 Inferences for Two Population Means
Ch11 Inferences for Population Proportions
Ch12 Chi-Square Procedures
Ch13 Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
Ch14 Inferential Methods in Regression and Correlation

APPENDICES
Appendix A: Statistical Tables
Appendix B: Answers to Selected Exercises

WeissStats CD-ROM (included with every new textbook)