Key Message: Stats: Data and Models, Second Edition, carries on a conversation with readers, intriguing and challenging them to read the text and have fun learning statistics.  Lauded by students and instructors alike for its readability and ease of comprehension, Stats: Data and Models, Second Edition, focuses on statistical thinking and data analysis, emphasizing how statistics helps us to understand our world. The text incorporates compelling examples derived from the authors’ wealth of consulting experience and encourages readers to learn how to reason with data.Key Topics: Exploring and Understanding Data, Exploring Relationships between Variables, Gathering Data, Randomness and Probability, From The Data at Hand to the World at Large, Learning About the World, Modeling the WorldMarket: For all readers interested in statistics. Read Less