Statistics: Informed Decisions Using Data

by Michael Sullivan III

For courses in introductory statistics.

 

Putting It Together

Informed Decisions Using Data, Fifth Edition, gives students the tools to see a bigger picture and make informed choices. As a current introductory statistics instructor, Mike Sullivan III presents a text that is filled with ideas and strategies that work in today’s classroom. His practical emphasis resonates with students and helps them see that statistics is connected, not only to individual concepts, but also with the world at large.

 

MyLab™ Statistics for this edition takes advantage of data analytics to add additional exercises to high usage chapters. New Technology Support Videos show the author demonstrating easy-to-follow steps to solve a problem in several different formats—by hand, TI-84, and StatCrunch™.

 

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Genres: Textbooks, Mathematics, School, College, Nonfiction

960 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 2, 2003

About the author

Mike Sullivan III is a professor of mathematics at Joliet Junior College. He holds graduate degrees from DePaul University in both mathematics and economics. Mike is an author or co-author on more than 20 books, including a statistics book and a developmental mathematics series.

Son of Professor of Mathematics Michael Sullivan.

Reviews

[Eve O. Spellman]

DNF because this was for a college course and I read only what I needed to.

- * = Poor explaining
- * = Quite boring
- * = Powerpoints are almost useless

[Isabelle reads a book a day because she has no friends]

Someone please SAVE ME

[Mel Foster]

Statistics is an important and practical subject, and Sullivan does a great job bringing in a variety of concrete examples of application. In fact there are always more than enough practice exercises. I'm not going to give a full review, but note a couple key observations.
We were working from a hard and softcover edition, and they differed in the number of chapters and topics included. I did not discover this until we were underway.
There were some times when I had a hard time understanding what Sullivan was trying to communicate formulaically even when I thought I understood the concept. I prefer Salman Khan's approach of explaining the intuition, and using the formula if it helps. I certainly consulted Khan Academy and other resources to get through this book at home with my kids. Some of the applications of standard deviation were challenging for me. I really appreciated having the teacher's edition solutions for half of the problems.

[Bailey Marissa]

Used with Lumerit Education/CollegePlus!'s Statistics class (Avoid at all costs; this class is a wreck.)

[Kyle]

The online portion and class course can be manageable, but the book itself it terrible for anyone who is totally new to statistics. It explains everything in the most math-savvy way possible. Which you’d think makes sense, right? Well if you don’t know half the terms in a vital point of explanation, you are going to be lost for a good while rummaging through chapters or Google just to understand the meaning of a sentence, and thats if the way it is worded isn't over the top. If i were to generalize the way the book explains everything, imagine if someone wrote the book exactly as a normal person would, and then someone else took the whole book and switched out half the words for less commonly used words off of thesaurus.com and key words at the end of chapters from other chapters/books in order to save word space. You're left with something that primarily only makes sense to people who already have a strong understanding of the subject. the book should open the opportunity to teach yourself where another person cannot, but this book does no such thing. If you have a confusing professor, i sincerely hope you have the means and the resources to learn from something other than the book.

[Pete]

———————————2.5/5 stars———————————
It’s not just that statistics is a terrible class, I just hate the way textbooks are written when they can explain concepts in more plain terms. I do like that it includes instructions for ti 83/84, minitab, and excel though. Some things weren’t completely explained, and it took me a while to understand where they were coming from in some examples.

[Liz]

I can't say I really liked this book, because I really don't like the subject matter. I took statistics about 20 years ago and really hated it. I just took it again for a different degree program, and I have to say that this particular text made statistics more enjoyable than the first time around. The text was easy to follow, and the online component was a great learning tool.

[Carla]

Awful! I don't ever want to look at this book again.

[Brain]

I have about 5-6 books on statistics and teach data analysis on occasion. I find I keep coming back to this one often. I like the older versions.

[Emily Olsen]

This textbook was assigned by my stats teacher. His lectures were sufficient so I didn't use the book as much as I thought I might.

[hallie]

hated this

poorly organized. NOT user friendly in the slightest. needed more page references to the frequently used charts to help you more easily navigate this behemoth. wouldn’t recommend.

[Leyla]

I haven't studied the entire course yet, but I desperately need this for my goodreads challenge goal lmao.

[Shannon]

This isn't the exact book but it's the closest I could find. The one I'm reading is a custom edition for my school. I wasn't a fan of this book but only because it has to do with math and I am TERRIBLE at math.

[Amg]

This book will change your mind about the subject.

[Guitarfeak]

Your basic college statistic book.

[Steven Sanderson]

A basic stats book that is very reader friendly

[Jennifer Cody]

Honestly, this wasn't the best-written text book... for many concepts, I ended up just going to khanacademy.com to get a better explanation.

[Callie]

I survived math from Hail :)