Daren S. Starnes - UPDATED The Practice of Statistics

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Updated The Practice of Statistics for the AP Exam

Sixth Edition

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Contents

This Preliminary Volume includes Chapters 16 and selected appendices. The complete Contents are listed here as a preview of the full book to come in January.

1. Additional Online Chapters
2. 13Analysis of Variance
3. 14Multiple Linear Regression
4. 15Logistic Regression

DAREN S. STARNES is Mathematics Department Chair and holds the Robert S. and Christina Seix Dow Distinguished Master Teacher Chair in Mathematics at The Lawrenceville School near Princeton, New Jersey. He earned his MA in Mathematics from the University of Michigan and his BS in Mathematics from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Daren is also an alumnus of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. Daren has led numerous one-day and weeklong AP Statistics institutes for new and experienced teachers, and he has been a Reader, Table Leader, and Question Leader for the AP Statistics exam since 1998. Daren is a frequent speaker at local, state, regional, national, and international conferences. He has written articles for The Mathematics Teacher and CHANCE magazine. From 2004 to 2009, Daren served on the ASA/NCTM Joint Committee on the Curriculum in Statistics and Probability (which he chaired in 2009). While on the committee, he edited the Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education (GAISE) pre-K12 report and coauthored (with Roxy Peck) Making Sense of Statistical Studies, a capstone module in statistical thinking for high school students. Daren is also coauthor of the popular on-level text Statistics and Probability with Applications.

JOSH TABOR has enjoyed teaching on-level and AP Statistics to high school students for more than 22 years, most recently at his alma mater, Canyon del Oro High School in Oro Valley, Arizona. He received a BS in Mathematics from Biola University, in La Mirada, California. In recognition of his outstanding work as an educator, Josh was named one of the five finalists for Arizona Teacher of the Year in 2011. He is a past member of the AP Statistics Development Committee (20052009) and has been a Reader, Table Leader, and Question Leader at the AP Statistics Reading since 1999. In 2013, Josh was named to the SAT Mathematics Development Committee. Each year, Josh leads one-week AP Summer Institutes and one-day College Board workshops around the country and frequently speaks at local, national, and international conferences. In addition to teaching and speaking, Josh has authored articles in The American Statistician, The Mathematics Teacher, STATS Magazine, and The Journal of Statistics Education. He is the author of the Annotated Teachers Edition and Teachers Resource Materials for The Practice of Statistics, Fourth Edition and Fifth Edition. Combining his love of statistics and love of sports, Josh teamed with Christine Franklin to write Statistical Reasoning in Sports, an innovative textbook for on-level statistics courses. Josh is also coauthor of the popular on-level text Statistics and Probability with Applications.

Content Advisory Board and Supplements Team

Ann Cannon, Cornell College, Mount Vernon, IA

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Ann has served as Reader, Table Leader, Question Leader, and Assistant Chief Reader for the AP Statistics exam for the past 17 years. She is also the 2017 recipient of the Mu Sigma Rho William D. Warde Statistics Education Award for a lifetime devotion to the teaching of statistics. Ann has taught introductory statistics at the college level for 25 years and is very active in the Statistics Education Section of the American Statistical Association, currently serving as secretary/treasurer. She is coauthor of STAT2: Building Models for a World of Data (W. H. Freeman and Company).

Luke Wilcox, East Kentwood High School, Kentwood, MI

Content Advisor, Teachers Edition, Teachers Resource Materials

Luke has been a math teacher for 15 years and is currently teaching Intro Statistics and AP Statistics. Luke recently received the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching and was named Michigan Teacher of the Year 20162017. He facilitates professional development for teachers in curriculum, instruction, assessment, and strategies for motivating students. Lindsey Gallas and Luke are the co-bloggers at The Stats Medic (www.statsmedic.com), a site dedicated to improving statistics education, which includes activities and lessons for this textbook.