The highly readable text captures the flavor of a course in mathematical statistics without imposing too much rigor; students can concentrate on the statistical strategies without getting lost in the theory.
Students who use this book will be well on their way to thinking like a statistician. Practicing statisticians will find this book useful in that it is replete with statistical test procedures (both parametric and non-parametric) as well as numerous detailed examples.

7 Comprehensive coverage of descriptive statistics
7 More detailed treatment of univariate and
bivariate probability distributions
7 Thorough coverage of probability theory with
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