Publisher's Synopsis
"The heart of this text was written over a summer in Paris, in a small apartment near the Place Saint Ferdinand, having been outlined in nearby cafés and on walks in the Bois de Boulogne. It is based on our Collective experience of many decades of teaching, researching, and writing. We believe that the result is a text as Different from the conventional lot of statistics texts as Paris is from Patagonia, yet still comfortable and stimulating to the long-suffering community of statistics instructors. Our approach was developed over decades of successful teaching-successful not only in that students have consistently rated the course (a statistics course, remember) as a highlight of their major, but also that students come back to us long after graduating saying, "I was light years ahead of my fellow graduate students because of your course," or "Even though I don't do research, your course has really helped me read the journals in my fie
