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Changes From Previous Version

This book is the second edition of Introduction to Statistics by Dr. Valerie Watts, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike.

The following is a summary of changes between the first edition and the second edition:

Overall
  • Moved introductory sub-chapters to chapter title page.
  • Added additional exercises as necessary.
  • Removed concept reviews from the end of each sub-chapter.
  • Moved exercises from the end of each chapter to appropriate sub-chapters.
  • Added answers to all exercises.
  • Added chapters on time series analysis and statistical quality control.
Chapter 1:  Sampling and Data
  • Moved levels of measurement to sub-chapter on types of data.
  • Moved frequency distributions to chapter 2.
  • Created a new sub-chapter for sampling and sampling techniques.
Chapter 2:  Descriptive Statistics
  • Removed frequency polygons.
  • Moved time series plots to chapter 14.
  • Changed order of sub-chapters.
  • Removed content on grouped data calculations.
Chapter 3:  Probability
  • Added additional exercises for the complement rule.
Chapter 4:  Discrete Random Variables
  • Added additional content on random variables.
Chapter 5:  Continuous Random Variables and the Normal Distribution
  • Combined sub-chapters on continuous random variables and continuous probability distributions.
Chapter 14:  Time Series Analysis
  • Created this new chapter.
Chapter 15:  Statistical Quality Control
  • Created this new chapter.

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