Summary of Adaptations
Full Resource Adaptations
Across all chapters of the resource, the following changes were done:
- Edited all mathematical notations to have them appear in LaTex
- Created and added H5P activities for select content and exercises
- Some H5P activities were added from Significant Statistics: An Introduction to Statistics
- Some H5P activities were added from Significant Statistics: An Introduction to Statistics
- Added solution drop-downs (HTML or Accordion H5P) for Exercises and Your Turn
- Added embedded videos from YouTube
- Other videos added from Introduction to Statistics: An Excel-Based Approach (7.1 (one video), 7.2 (two videos), 7.3 (two videos), 8.1 (one video), 8.2 (one video), 8.5 (five videos), 9.1 (two videos), 9.2 (two videos), 9.3 (one video))
- Removed Chapter Objectives from Introduction pages
- Added Learning Objectives for each Section/Chapter
- Enabled glossary term functionality
- Consistent colored text boxes throughout
- Added Heading 1 to main parts for Table of Contents
- Minor removal and reordering of content for flow and clarity
- Try-It was renamed to “Your Turn” (like in Significant Statistics)
- Merged Chapter 6 (The Normal Distribution) and Chapter 7 (The Central Limit Theorem) into one Part
- Moved Collaborative Exercises to Introduction pages
- Made Chapter Review, Practice, and Homework into their own Chapters
- Moved end of Chapter Projects into own their own Part titled Class Group Activities/Projects
- Chapter 12: F Distribution and One-Way ANOVA – removed from this version of book
- Adjusted language for clarity
- Images on Introductions captioned for accessibility – same captions provided from source; alt-tag used as provided from source
Chapter-Specific Changes
Chapter 3: Probability Topics
- 3.1: Updated last example to reference freshman course enrollment
- The LaTeX formula within the conditional statement was adjusted.
Chapter 4: Discrete Random Variables
- Introduction: Changed example for long-distance phone calls to emails
- Moved “Random Variables” heading and content from the Introduction to Section 4.1 Probability Distribution Function (PDF) for a Discrete Random Variable
- Section 4.1 and 4.2: Changed to neutral pronouns for parents, students, and the university soccer team
- Section 4.2: Changed betting on earthquakes in Japan example to purchasing travel insurance
- Section 4.3: Added text regarding Binomial PDF from Significant Statistics
- Section 4.3: Removed example regarding cancer rates to shorten section slightly, added new figure for Workers example
- The LaTeX formula within the mean or expected value was adjusted.
Chapter 5: Continuous Random Variables
- Moved “Properties of Continuous Probability Distributions” heading and content from the Introduction to Section 5.1 Continuous Probability Functions
Chapter 6: The Normal Distribution and The Central Limit Theorem
- Moved “Normal Distribution parameters” content from the Introduction to Section 6.1 The Standard Normal Distribution
- Content brought in from 5.2 Normal Distribution in Significant Statistics for use in our Sections 6.1 and 6.2
- Removed “For that reason, as well as the fact that there are various table formats, we are not including table instructions.” from 6.1
- Added my own information on using the Z-Score Table in 6.2 (in text and solutions for examples)
- Added Z Table link provided by OpenStax from Back Matter in 6.2
- Added section just for using the technology (graphing calculator)
- Rearranged examples and try-its in 6.1 and 6.2
- Rearranged content for better flow
- Images in 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, and 6.5 from Significant Statistics
- H5P Solutions brought in from Significant Statistics for 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, and 6.5
- Added content from 6.2 Significant Statistics to to 6.3 for CLT with Sample Mean
- Section 6.5 (which was Section 7.3 in Original Text):
- Moved examples into Sections 6.3 and 6.4 for more CLT practice, removed other CLT content in beginning
- Changed Section to be just The Normal Approximation to the Binomial – took most content from Significant Statistics Section 5.3
- Added my own content in places, to fill in gaps.
- Videos added from Khan Academy and OpenIntroOrg
Class Group Activities/Projects
- Titled each to contain “Chapter # Project” for quick reference
- Edited tables to have captions for accessibility
- Group and Partner Projects (from Appendix) made into separate projects.