The Workshop Statistics™ series has set a standard for teaching statistics in an innovative, investigative, and accessible manner for introductory college courses, as well as for the high school statistics classroom, including AP® Statistics.  In its third edition, Workshop Statistics: Discovery with Data and Fathom™ continues to emphasize collaborative learning, require student observation, and integrate technology for gathering, recording, and synthesizing data.  The third edition provides even more guidance and resources for students to support their active learning of statistics and includes updated real data sets with everyday applications in order to promote statistical literacy.  This version of the text supports the use of Fathom™  Dynamic Data software and includes step-by-step Fathom instructions.

Table of Contents:
Annotated Contents  ix Preface to the Fathom Version of Workshop Statistics xv To the Student  xxi Organization of Workshop Statistics xxiii List of Activities by Application  xxix List of Activities Using Student-Generated Data xxxvi Unit 1  Collecting Data and Drawing Conclusions  1 Topic 1  Data and Variables  3 Topic 2 Data and Distributions  14 Topic 3  Drawing Conclusions from Studies  33 Topic 4  Random Sampling  52 Topic 5  Designing Experiments  73 Unit 2  Summarizing Data 91 Topic 6  Two-Way Tables  93 Topic 7  Displaying and Describing Distributions  118 Topic 8  Measures of Center  140 Topic 9  Measures of Spread  160 Topic 10  More Summary Measures and Graphs  184 Unit 3  Randomness in Data  207 Topic 11  Probability  209 Topic 12 Normal Distributions  233 Topic 13  Sampling Distributions: Proportions  254 Topic 14  Sampling Distributions: Means  276 Topic 15  Central Limit Theorem  297 Unit 4 Inference from Data: Principles  313 Topic 16  Confidence Intervals: Proportions 315 Topic 17  Tests of Significance: Proportions 337 Topic 18 More Inference Considerations  358 Topic 19  Confidence Intervals: Means  375 Topic 20  Tests of Significance: Means 396 Unit 5 Inference from Data: Comparisons  413 Topic 21  Comparing Two Proportions 415 Topic 22  Comparing Two Means  441 Topic 23  Analyzing Paired Data 465 Unit 6 Inferences with Categorical Data  487 Topic 24  Goodness-of-Fit Tests  489 Topic 25  Inference for Two-Way Tables  511 Unit 7  Relationships in Data  535 Topic 26  Graphical Displays of Association  537 Topic 27  Correlation Coefficient  558 Topic 28  Least Squares Regression  580 Topic 29  Inference for Correlations and Regression  607 Topic 30. Probability Rules *online only Topic 31: Random Variables *online only Topic 32. Binomial Distribution *online only Topic 33. Analysis of Variance *online only Table I Random Digits  627 Table II Standard Normal Probabilities 629 Table III t-Distribution Critical Values  631 Table IV  Chi-Square Distribution Critical Values  632 Appendix A  Student Glossary  633 Appendix B  Sources for Studies and Datasets  639 Appendix C  List of Data Files and Applets  653 Fathom Dynamic Data Software Quick Reference  655 Index 661