This focused, data-driven text shows students from a wide-variety of disciplines how to use statistics as a tool for making informed decisions. It teaches students how to analyze and turn the data that surrounds them info useful, inference-based information. Throughout, emphasis is placed on statistical reasoning, interpretation, and decision-making.

Dr. Terry Sandifer is a Professor of Mathematics at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven. She graduated from Iona College and received her PhD. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of Massachusetts, where she met both her husband and Dr. Pelosi. She continued her career teaching Industrial Engineering at Western New England College with Dr. Pelosi. Dr. Sandifer then spend five years working as a statistician for the Kimberly Clark Corporation before returning to teaching. A Brooklyn, NY, native, Dr. Sandifer has two children and enjoys reading, shopping, and playing video games.

Dr. Pelosi and Dr. Sandifer have been best friends since graduate school and have co-authored three statistician workbooks and a business statistics textbook.