The use of calculus in introductory statistics is a historical artifact. Before computers, it was easier to use mathematical models like probability distributio

The use of calculus in introductory statistics is a historical artifact. Before computers, it was easier to use mathematical models like probability distributions than to do resampling. With computers, it's easy and more intuitive to use a resampling approach and textbooks that use such approaches are becoming more common. OpenIntro's Introduction to Modern Statistics is a free textbook of that type. You can find it at https://openintro-ims.netlify.app/ https://openintro-ims.netlify.app/