Intro Stats, Global Edition, 6th edition

Published by Pearson (July 17, 2024) © 2025

  • Richard D. De Veaux Williams College
  • Paul F. Velleman Cornell University (Emetrius)
  • David E. Bock Ithaca High School (Retired) , Cornell University
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Title overview

For courses in Introductory Statistics.

Innovative methods, technology, and humor encourage statistical thinking

Intro Stats, 6th Edition by De Veaux/Velleman/Bock uses inventive strategies to help students think critically about data, while maintaining the book's core concepts, coverage, and readability. By using technology and simulations to demonstrate variability at critical points throughout the course, the authors make it easier for instructors to teach and for students to understand more complicated statistical concepts later in the course.

This revision includes several enhancements, enriching material with greater use of the authors' signature tools for teaching about randomness, sampling distribution models, and inference. Current discussions of ethical issues have been added throughout, and each chapter now ends with a student project that can be used for collaborative work.

Table of contents

  • I: EXPLORING AND UNDERSTANDING DATA
  • Stats Starts Here
  • Displaying and Describing Data
  • Relationships Between Categorical Variables: Contingency Tables
  • Understanding and Comparing Distributions
  • The Standard Deviation as a Ruler and the Normal Model
  • II: EXPLORING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN VARIABLES
  • Scatterplots, Association, and Correlation
  • Linear Regression
  • Regression Wisdom
  • Multiple Regression
  • III: GATHERING DATA
  • Sample Surveys
  • Experiments and Observational Studies
  • IV: FROM THE DATA AT HAND TO THE WORLD AT LARGE
  • From Randomness to Probability
  • Sampling Distributions and Confidence Intervals for Proportions
  • Confidence Intervals for Means
  • Testing Hypotheses
  • More About Tests and Intervals
  • V: INFERENCE FOR RELATIONSHIPS
  • Comparing Groups
  • Paired Samples and Blocks
  • Comparing Counts
  • Inferences for Regression
  • Parts I-V Cumulative Review Exercises
  • Appendixes

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