Suggested Readings

COMAP. Principles and Practice of Mathematics, Springer, New York, 1997. Chapters 4 and 8 present combinatorics and probability at the next level beyond this book.

LESSER, LAWRENCE M. Take a chance by exploring the statistics in lotteries. Statistics Teacher Network, 65 (2004): 6–7. This article shows how lotteries can illustrate all major topics of an introductory statistics course, using a graphing calculator. The article is available online at www.amstat.org/education/stn/pdfs/STN65.pdf.

MOSTELLER, FREDERICK, ROBERT E. K. ROURKE, and GEORGE B. THOMAS. Probability with Statistical Applications, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1970. A rich treatment of basic probability that requires only high school algebra but is somewhat sophisticated. Although out of print, this book is a classic that deserves mention.

WAINER, HOWARD. The most dangerous equation. American Scientist, 95(3) (2007): 249–256. This article explores many real-world examples of the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of the sample mean.