The original target audience was phd students in the sciences who want to do statistics to do science. So: - the book tries to be practical and applicable for

The original target audience was phd students in the sciences who want to do statistics to do science. So: - the book tries to be practical and applicable for science - the book assumes some amount of mathematical maturity and ability to fiddle with somewhat simple data - the book is not about mathematical statistics – no proving things about maximum likelihood estimators - the book doesn’t teach you about programming in R