Foreword

John Tukey predicted that computers would revolutionize the practice of statistics. But I think most of us are surprised by the extent to which the practice of statistics has been "democratized" by the computer. It is very probable that more statistical methods are used by non-statisticians than by those of us who think of ourselves as statisticians. Consequently, there is an increasing need for books that are application-focused, treat software as an integral part of the process of using statistical methods to help solve a particular problem, and offer concise, authoritative advice. José G. Ramírez, Ph.D., and Brenda S. Ramírez, M.S., have written such a book.

Ramírez and Ramírez focus on continuous data, and use JMP software as the analytical ...

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