Stats 7: Textbook Options

Our required textbook is Workshop Statistics: Discover with Data, 4th edition, by Allan Rossman and Beth Chance. Available versions (listed in order of most expensive to least expensive) are:

• Hardcover:  ISBN 978-0-470-54209-5 -- Wiley Price = $131.95
  
• Paperback:  ISBN 978-0-470-54208-8 -- Wiley Price = $109.95
• E-Book:  ISBN 978-1-118-21483-1 -- Wiley Price = $79.50
  
• Binder-Ready:  ISBN 978-0-470-60765-7 -- Wiley Price = $70.95
  

The UCI Bookstore has the paperback version in stock for $114.90 or used for $86.20. To order directly from Wiley, visit their website here. Amazon also has the paperback version available new for $76.50 here, with free two-day shipping for college students.

Recommendations

• I very highly recommend you purchase a new version of the textbook. The new binder-ready version is very reasonably priced. If you buy a used version, then the activities will already have answers written in the textbook, and they will be somebody else's answers -- not your own answers. You will get much more out of the course and the textbook if you have the opportunity to think about the activities from your own perspective, without answers already written in the textbook for you. Additionally, a new textbook will allow you to create your own textbook tailored to your personal thought process.
• There is a 3rd edition of the textbook available; however, the 4th edition has a lot of additions (new activities, new data sets, new homework exercises) that are not in the 3rd edition. If you decide to use the 3rd edition, you will need to make friends with someone that has the 4th edition so that you can be sure you have the correct activities and homeworks.