
The get-it-over-with-quickly approach to statistics has been encouraged - and often necessitated - by the short time allotted to it in most curriculums. If included at all, statistics is presented briefly, as a task to be endured mainly because pertinent questions may appear...

It covers many of the newew statistical methods and approaches and is arranged in a logical sequence that advances from simple to more elaborate results. The text describes all the conventional statistical procedures and offers reasonably rigorous accounts of many of their mathematical...