Book Title: Significant Statistics: An Introduction to Statistics
Book Description: Significant Statistics: An Introduction to Statistics is intended for students enrolled in a one-semester introduction to statistics course who are not mathematics or engineering majors. It focuses on the interpretation of statistical results, especially in real world settings, and assumes that students have an understanding of intermediate algebra. In addition to end of section practice and homework sets, examples of each topic are explained step-by-step throughout the text and followed by a 'Your Turn' problem that is designed as extra practice for students.
Significant Statistics: An Introduction to Statistics was adapted from content published by OpenStax including Introductory Statistics, OpenIntro Statistics, and Introductory Statistics for the Life and Biomedical Sciences. John Morgan Russell reorganized the existing content and added new content where necessary.
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Book Description
Significant Statistics: An Introduction to Statistics is intended for students enrolled in a one-semester introduction to statistics course who are not mathematics or engineering majors. It focuses on the interpretation of statistical results, especially in real world settings, and assumes that students have an understanding of intermediate algebra. In addition to end of section practice and homework sets, examples of each topic are explained step-by-step throughout the text and followed by a ‘Your Turn’ problem that is designed as extra practice for students.
Significant Statistics: An Introduction to Statistics was adapted from content published by OpenStax including Introductory Statistics, OpenIntro Statistics, and Introductory Statistics for the Life and Biomedical Sciences. John Morgan Russell reorganized the existing content and added new content where necessary.
To access this text in different formats (PDF, EPUB, and print), please visit https://doi.org/10.21061/significantstatistics.
Instructors reviewing, adopting, or adapting this textbook: please help us understand your use by filling out this form https://bit.ly/stat-interest.
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This book is a cloned version of Significant Statistics - beta (extended) version by Adapted by John Morgan Russell, from Barbara Illowsky and Susan Dean, David Diez, Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel and Christopher D. Barr, and Julie Vu and David Harrington, published using Pressbooks by Department of Statistics in affiliation with the University Libraries at Virginia Tech under a CC BY-SA (Attribution ShareAlike) license. It may differ from the original.
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Significant Statistics: An Introduction to Statistics Copyright © 2025 by John Morgan Russell is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
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Attributions: The base of the book is from OpenStax Introductory Statistics by Barbara Illowsky and Susan Dean, which is licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) license, much of which was reworded and reorganized. Additional content from OpenIntro Statistics by David Diez, Mine C¸ etinkaya-Rundel, and Christopher D Barr, and Introductory Statistics for the Life and Biomedical Sciences by Julie Vu and David Harrington, both licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 3.0 (CC BY-SA 3.0) license, were then added to fill in gaps. Several figures were also adapted from the OpenIntro texts.
Suggested citation: Russell, John Morgan (2025). Significant Statistics: An Introduction to Statistics. Blacksburg: Virginia Tech Department of Statistics. https://doi.org/10.21061/significantstatistics. Licensed with CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/.
Publisher: This work is published by the Virginia Tech Department of Statistics in association with Virginia Tech Publishing and the Open Education Initiative, a division of the University Libraries at Virginia Tech.
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Russell, John Morgan, author
Significant Statistics: An Introduction to Statistics / John Morgan Russell
Pages cm
ISBN 978-1-962841-01-6 (PDF)
ISBN 978-1-962841-00-9 (EPUB)
ISBN 978-1-957213-85-9 (Pressbooks; https://pressbooks.lib.vt.edu/significantstatistics)
ISBN 978-1-957213-86-6 (Print)
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10919/118481
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21061/significantstatistics
Statistics–Textbooks.
QA276.12 .I45 2025
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