Emphasis on making informed decisions

Mike Sullivan helps students connect statistical concepts with their everyday lives, teaching them to think critically and make informed decisions.

Putting It Together features connect concepts from different chapters to show statistics as a whole, rather than a series of disconnected procedures. Putting It Together sections ask students to identify the correct approach to solving a problem, while Putting It Together problems integrated throughout the text help students to tie concepts together and see the entire statistical process.
Making an Informed Decision chapter openers pose a question, and then present the statistical concept necessary for prudent decision-making. This feature engages the reader in the statistical-thinking process and highlights the practicality of statistics.
UPDATED - The Student Activity Workbook includes new activities to be used with students, as well as ideas for semester-long projects, including the use of StatCrunch. Accompanied by an instructor resource guide with suggestions for incorporating activities into the classroom, the workbook helps to actively engage students with the material.
NEW - Author-specific applets made for this course can be used in the classroom or as part of a project featured in the Activity Workbook, asking students to manipulate data using technology to better understand concepts. New applet exercises in the MyLab encourage this exploration.
Case Studies conclude each chapter, promoting active learning and helping students apply their knowledge.
StatCrunch is a powerful, web-¿based statistical software integrated into MyLab Statistics, so students can quickly and easily analyze any data set, including those from their text and MyLab Statistics exercises. StatCrunch users can access tens of thousands of shared data sets, create and conduct online surveys, pull data from almost any web page, and perform complex analyses using the powerful statistical software.
StatCrunch Projects in MyLab Statistics provide opportunities for students to explore data beyond the classroom. In each project, students analyze a large data set in StatCrunch and answer corresponding, assignable questions for immediate feedback. StatCrunch Projects span the entire curriculum or focus on certain key concepts.

Opportunities for self-assessment and prerequisite mastery

Throughout the course, features that enable students to check their understanding – or get up to speed on prerequisites in a corequisite course – are available to provide optimal support.

UPDATED - Integrated Review in the MyLab course offers corequisite support – or can be used simply to get underprepared students up to speed. Based on the author’s own experience with corequisite courses, Integrated Review provides embedded and personalized review of prerequisite topics, selected by the author, within relevant chapters. In this revision, select topics have been added to provide further review. All assignments are premade and editable for instructors to assign.

Premade, assignable Skills Check assignments check each student’s understanding of prerequisite skills needed to be successful in the following chapter.
For any skills gaps that are identified, a personalized review homework is populated. Students receive personalized practice on the topics they need to focus on – no more, no less.
For any topics a student may have gaps on, a suite of resources support student learning. Videos, a full Integrated Review eText, and new Integrated Review worksheets are available to help students understand the objectives they missed on the Skills Check quiz. The Integrated Review eText includes review from Mike Sullivan’s developmental math series.
A printed version of the Integrated Review eText is available for corequisite support as well.

NEW - Personal Inventory Assessments in the MyLab course are a collection of online exercises designed to promote self-reflection and engagement in students. These 33 assessments include topics such as a Stress Management Assessment, Diagnosing Poor Performance and Enhancing Motivation, and Time Management Assessment. Preparing for this Section quizzes verify that students have the prerequisite knowledge for the next section, and include page numbers for quick reference.
Retain Your Knowledge problems help students in recalling skills learned earlier in the course, so that the material is fresh for the final exam. These appear periodically at the end of section exercises.
Video support in the course means that students have support anytime, anywhere.

NEW - Lightboard videos featuring the author develop statistical concepts for students.
Author in the Classroom videos feature the author’s own lectures with his class, giving students an authentic lecture experience. Great for online courses or when students miss a lecture.
UPDATED - Animated videos explain concepts or tie material learned earlier in the course with the upcoming chapter or section. Additional animated videos have been added to the 6th edition course.
Chapter Test Videos are available for each chapter test problem in complete, worked-out video solutions either solved by hand, using the TI-84C, or StatCrunch.

Abundant practice opportunities

Students learn best by doing – so ample opportunities for practice, often using real data to keep topics relevant and motivate students, are found throughout.

NEW - Threaded Tornado Problems throughout the text present a single, large data set that measures various variables on all tornadoes that struck the United States in 2017.

Students learn various statistical techniques while using the same data set, showing how data can be manipulated to accomplish various tasks.
Marked with a tornado icon, these problems can be used as a semester-long project for students, giving them another opportunity to work with real data from recent events.
Corresponding MyLab problems around this tornado data set are also available.

NEW - Over 350 new and updated exercises are included, many of which focus more on students’ abilities to explain the results of their statistical analysis than on computation. In addition, exercises have been written to require students to understand pitfalls in faulty statistical analysis.

Multiple types of exercises are used at the end of sections and chapters to test varying skills with progressive levels of difficulty. These exercises include Vocabulary and Skill Building, Applying the Concepts, and Explaining the Concepts.

Big Data Problems let students analyze data sets with more than 50 observations, which cover tens of thousands of observations with thousands of variables, giving them a taste of professional data analysis. These problems are marked with an icon and the data is available at www.pearsonhighered.com/sullivanstats.

NEW - Additional data sets in the 6th Edition are larger and more complex to support modern data analysis.

NEW - Over 100 new and updated examples keep this text fresh and relevant for today's students. Step-by-Step Annotated Examples guide students from problem to solution in three easy-to-follow steps: Problem, Approach, Solution. Solutions demonstrate using both by-hand and technology methods, where applicable.
Chapter Review sections include a Chapter Summary, a list of key chapter Vocabulary, and Chapter Objectives with corresponding Review Exercises. A Chapter Test with video solutions ends each chapter.
Learning Catalytics™ is a student response tool integrated into the MyLab Statistics course that uses students’ smartphones, tablets, or laptops to engage them in more interactive tasks and thinking. It helps to foster student engagement and peer-¿to-¿peer learning, generate class discussion, and guide lectures with real¿-time analytics. Search “SullivanStats” to use premade questions in Learning Catalytics written by Mike Sullivan for this title.

Technology integration for optimal student support

Integration of technology in the text and MyLab course provides abundant support for students, no matter the statistical software being used in the course.

NEW - R Manual—Written by Patrick Murphy (nephew of the author) and Michael Sullivan, the R Technology Guide provides a chapter-by-chapter discussion of R commands needed for each topic.
Technology Step-by-Step guides show how to use StatCrunch, Minitab^®, Excel^®, and the TI-83/84 graphing calculator to complete statistics processes.
Data sets with 12 or more observations are included in the MyLab course, or can be downloaded from the companion website, in multiple formats to allow for hands-on manipulation.
Software output screens include displays from Minitab, TI-83/84, StatCrunch, and Excel to illustrate exercises and examples where appropriate.
Technology Answers are now included where they differ from by-hand answers.
Accompanying Technology Manuals contain detailed tutorial instructions and worked-out examples and exercises for TI-83/84 calculators.
NEW - New Excel video solutions are available for any example in which Excel may be used to obtain statistical results.

Also available with MyLab Statistics

MyLab™ Statistics is the teaching and learning platform that empowers you to reach every student. By combining trusted author content with digital tools and a flexible platform, MyLab Statistics personalizes the learning experience and improves results for each student. With MyLab Statistics and StatCrunch^®integrated web-based statistical software, students learn the skills they need to interact with data in the real world. Learn more about MyLab Statistics.

Teach your course your way

Technology¿-specific video tutorials and study cards provide students with support no matter which statistical software they use. The videos address how to use StatCrunch, Excel, Minitab, R, and TI 83/84 calculators to complete exercises. There are also study cards available in MyLab Statistics for all of these plus JMP.

Empower each learner

Features in MyLab Statistics get every student up to speed and ready to learn. The Getting Ready for Statistics question library contains more than 450 exercises that cover the relevant developmental math topics for a given section. And the Integrated Review content in the Sullivan Statistics course brings Mike Sullivan’s experience with corequisites into the MyLab, giving students robust review opportunities on prerequisites – including a full eText on prerequisite skills.

Deliver trusted content

Exercises and resources in the MyLab are author-specific, written or produced by author Mike Sullivan to provide a completely seamless experience from text to MyLab. Author in the Classroom videos feature Mike Sullivan’s own classroom lectures. And new lightboard videos from the author present statistical concepts in a modern presentation format.

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