Description: Appopriate for a one-term introduction to statistics courses, this text introduces statistical concepts and methods from a predominantly Bayesian perspective. It covers standard topics taking the Bayesian view that subjectivity is inevitable in science and that different conclusions from the same study are normal and stresses the advantages of this approach in scientific inference. It presents statistics as a means of integrating data into the scientific process and stresses data analysisand experimental design ideas early.
-- Uncommonly interesting, real-world examples, including case studies with data from experiments concerning scientific questions.
-- Applications drawn largely from medicine and sports, because both yield intrinsically effective data for teaching statistics.
-- Chapter appendices that provide specific instructions for running exercises on Minitab "RM" .The data disk also contains Minitab "RM" macros for that purpose.

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