95% of Introductory Statistics students will never take another statistics course. What do you want to learn? Discover the Power of Real Data Mario Triola remains the market leading statistics author by engaging readers of each edition with an abundance of real data in the examples, applications, and exercises. Statistics is all around us, and Triola helps readers understand how this course will impact their lives beyond the classroom as consumers, citizens, and professionals.

Essentials of Statistics, Fourth Edition is a more economical and streamlined introductory statistics text. Drawn from Triola's Elementary Statistics, Eleventh Edition, this text provides the same student friendly approach with material presented in a real world context. The Fourth Edition contains more than 1,700 exercises (18% more than the previous edition); 89% are new and 81% use real data. The book also contains hundreds of examples; 86% are new and 92% use real data. By analyzing real data, readers are able to connect abstract concepts to the world at large, teaching them to think statistically and apply their conceptual understanding using the same methods that professional statisticians employ.Datasets and other resources (where applicable) for this book are available here.

Chapter 1 Introduction to Statistics
Chapter 2 Summarizing and Graphing Data
Chapter 3 Statistics for Describing, Exploring, and Comparing Data
Chapter 4 Probability
Chapter 5 Discrete Probability Distributions
Chapter 6 Normal Probability Distributions
Chapter 7 Estimates and sample sizes
Chapter 8 Hypothesis Testing
Chapter 9 Inferences from Two Samples
Chapter 10 Correlation and Regression
Chapter 11 Chi-Square and Analysis of Variance