For people who are interested in learning more about simulation, permutation tests and bootstrapping, the three techniques that the slide deck discusses, check

For people who are interested in learning more about simulation, permutation tests and bootstrapping, the three techniques that the slide deck discusses, check out Allen Downey's Think Stats: http://greenteapress.com/thinkstats2/ http://greenteapress.com/thinkstats2/. It really is a pity that introductions to statistics spend so much time on analytic approximations and so little on the underlying concepts.