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
  • 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

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

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.

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