This book with just over 600 pages is both long and physically heavy two factors which have contributed to a lengthy time lag between receiving the book for review and writing this. The content of the book is far from heavy however and I have enjoyed reading it and have made use of it in my teaching.
The 12 chapters in the book take us in turn through a discussion of what statistics is tools for exploring univariate data and relationships probability discrete and continuous random variables sampling distributions confidence intervals and significance testing tables of counts and regression and correlation. Two further chapters on control charts and time series are available from web sites. It was written as a one-semester pre-calculus text but the authors realise that instructors might need to select topics. No prior knowledge of statistics is assumed.</
