Presents the fundamentals of statistics theory and application; features lessons on probability and hypothesis testing, random variables, binomial and normal distributions, distributions with two random variables, sampling, regression, and nonparametric methods; and includes exercises.

This ingenious, user-friendly introduction to calculus recounts adventures that take place in the mythical land of Carmorra. As the story's narrator meets Carmorra's citizens, they confront a series of practical problems, and their method of working out solutions employs calculus. As readers follow their adventures, they are introduced to calculating derivatives; finding maximum and minimum points with derivatives; determining derivatives of trigonometric...