Statistics for Data Science and Analytics

Acknowledgments

Julian Simon, an early resampling pioneer, first kindled Peter C. Bruce’s interest in statistics with his permutation and bootstrap approach to statistics, his Resampling Stats software (first released in the late 1970s), and his statistics text on the same subject. Robert Hayden, who co-authored early versions of parts of the text you are reading, was instrumental in getting this project launched.

Michelle Everson has taught many sessions of introductory statistics using versions of this book and has been vigilant in pointing out ambiguities and omissions. Her active participation in the statistics education community has been an asset as we have strived to improve and perfect this text. Meena Badade also teaches using this text and has also been very helpful in bringing to our attention errors and points requiring clarification. Diane Murphy reviewed the latest version of the book with care and contributed many useful corrections and suggestions.

Many students at the Institute for Statistics Education at Statistics.com have helped clarify confusing points and refine this book over the years.

We also thank our editor at Wiley, Brett Kurzman, who shepherded this book through the acceptance and launch process quickly and smoothly. Nandhini Karuppiah, the Managing Editor, helped guide us through the production process, and Govind Nagaraj managed the copyediting.