Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data, Global Edition, 5th edition

Published by Pearson (September 15, 2022) © 2023
  • Alan Agresti
  • Christine A. Franklin
  • Bernhard Klingenberg

Title overview

For courses in introductory statistics.

The art and science of learning from data

Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning From Data, 5th Edition helps you understand what statistics is all about and learn the right questions to ask when analyzing data, instead of just memorizing procedures. It makes accessible the ideas that have turned statistics into a central science of modern life, without compromising essential material. Students often find this book enjoyable to read and stay engaged with the wide variety of real-world data in the examples and exercises. Based on the authors' belief that it's important for you to learn and analyze both quantitative and categorial data, this text pays greater attention to the analysis of proportions than many other introductory statistics texts.

This edition includes a MyLab® Statistics.

Hallmark features of this title

  • The authors give greater attention to the analysis of proportions than many other introductory statistics texts. Concepts are introduced first with categorical data, and then with quantitative data. 
  • The importance of the statistical investigative process is emphasized in Chapter 1.
  • Featured examples and exercises throughout use the most recent data available.
  • The approach emphasizes using interval estimation for inference with less reliance on significance testing, and incorporates the 2016 American Statistical Association's statement on P-values.

New and updated features of this title

New and updated content reflects the importance of the statistical investigative process in data analysis.
  • The updated content in Chapter 1 offers an additional introduction to the opportunities and challenges with Big Data and Data Science, including a discussion of ethical considerations.
  • A new section in Chapter 2 refers to the main features of linear transformations.
  • There is further emphasis on the two descriptive statistics, most likely encountered by students in their daily lives (differences and ratios of proportions) in Section 3.1.
  • An expanded discussion on multivariate thinking is presented in Section 3.3.
  • A significantly expanded coverage of resampling methods, with a thorough discussion of the bootstrap for one and two-sample problems and the correlation coefficient, in new Sections 7.3, 8.3, and 10.3.
  • Continued emphasis on using interval estimation for inference and less reliance on significance testing incorporates the 2016 American Statistical Association’s statement on P-values.
  • A new section on statistical software at the end of each chapter provides commented R code, showing students how the analysis can be replicated and carried out in the statistical software R.
  • Many new and updated featured examples and exercises use the most recent data available.

Key features

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Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data, Global Edition, 5th editionis the ideal introduction to statistics, encouraging students to analyse data the right way by enquiring and searching for the right questions and information rather than just memorising procedures.

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Features of MyLab® Statistics for the 5th Edition

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Integrates the online apps from ArtofStat.com into every chapter through multiple screenshots and activities, inviting the user to replicate results using data from the authors' many examples.

  • These apps can be used live in lectures, together with students, to visualise concepts and carry out analyses. They can also be recorded for asynchronous online instructions.
  • Students can download (or screenshot) results for homework assignments or projects. At the end of each chapter, a new section on statistical software describes the functionality of each app used in the chapter.

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Table of contents

PART I: GATHERING AND EXPLORING DATA

  1. Statistics: The Art and Science of Learning from Data
  2. Exploring Data with Graphs and Numerical Summaries
  3. Exploring Relationships Between Two Variables
  4. Gathering Data

PART II: PROBABILITY, PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS, AND SAMPLING DISTRIBUTIONS

  1. Probability in Our Daily Lives
  2. Sampling Distributions

PART III: INFERENTIAL STATISTICS

  1. Statistical Inference: Confidence Intervals
  2. Statistical Inference: Significance Tests About Hypotheses
  3. Comparing Two Groups

PART IV: ANALYZING ASSOCIATION AND EXTENDED STATISTICAL METHODS

  1. Analyzing the Association Between Categorical Variables
  2. Analyzing the Association Between Quantitative Variables: Regression Analysis
  3. Multiple Regression
  4. Comparing Groups: Analysis of Variance Methods
  5. Nonparametric Statistics

Author bios

Alan Agresti is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Statistics at the University of Florida. He taught statistics there for 38 years, including the development of e-courses in statistical methods for social science students and three courses in categorical data analysis.

He is the author of more than 100 refereed articles and six texts, including Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences (Pearson, 5th edition, 2018) and An Introduction to Categorical Data Analysis (Wiley, 3rd edition, 2019). Alan has also received teaching awards from the University of Florida and an Excellence in Writing award from John Wiley & Sons.

Christine Franklin is the K-12 Statistics Ambassador for the American Statistical Association and elected ASA Fellow. She has retired from the University of Georgia as the Lothar Tresp Honoratus Honors Professor and Senior Lecturer Emerita in Statistics.

She is the co-author of two textbooks and has published more than 60 journal articles and book chapters. Chris was the lead writer for the American Statistical Association Pre-K-12 Guidelines for the Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education (GAISE) Framework document, co-chair for the updated Pre-K-12 GAISE II, and chair of the ASA Statistical Education of Teachers (SET) report.

Bernhard Klingenberg is a Professor of Statistics in the Department of Mathematics & Statistics at Williams College, where he has been teaching introductory and advanced statistics classes since 2004. He teaches statistical inference and modelling as well as data visualisation at the Graduate Data Science Program at New College of Florida.

Prof. Klingenberg is responsible for the development of the web apps, which he programs using the R package Shiny. A native of Austria, he frequently returns there to hold visiting positions at universities and gives short courses on categorical data analysis in Europe and the United States. He also enjoys photography, with some of his pictures appearing in this book.

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