Earlier chapters are streamlined so that the text is more easily adaptable for different length courses. Modular chapters provide a more in-depth exploration of these topics, as well as Experimental Design. No assumptions are made as to students abilities, which ensures that they cover all needed material. In most examples and exercises, the author has presented raw data in addition to summary statistics. This gives a more realistic view of statistics and provides an opportunity for the problems to be solved by computer if desired.
Data sets are available on disk in the back of the text.