Trosset (Indiana U.) presents a self-contained introduction to the methods of statistical inference for those students who are comfortable with a mathematical approach. He places greater emphasis on probability models than most other authors, not moving from probability models to statistical inference until the seventh chapter. The material relies heavily on the use of the computer program R, but in a way that privileges statistics over computation, explaining how to use elementary functions to perform the individual steps of procedure and thereby alleviating the tedium of calculation but maintaining attention to how procedures are implemented. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)