This book is very clearly laid out for both students and faculty. Many OERs (and published textbooks) are difficult to convert from a typical 15-week semester to a 10-week term, but not this one! This book is easy to follow and the roadmap at the front for the instructor adds additional ease. I teach at an institution with 10-week terms and I found it relatively easy to subdivide the material in this book into a digestible 10 weeks (I am not covering the entire book!). Nothing was jarring in this aspect, and the sections/chapters were consistent. As a mathematician, I find this book most readable, but I imagine that undergraduates might become somewhat confused. Words like "clearly" appear more than are warranted (ie: ever). The writing could be slightly more inviting, and concept could be more readily introduced via accessible examples more often. However, there are some sections that are quite dense and difficult to follow. The writing in this book is above average.
I do think there are some references that may become obsolete or lost somewhat quickly however, I think a diligent editorial team could easily update data sets and questions to stay current. Almost every worked example and possible homework exercise in the book is couched in real-world situation, nearly all of which are culturally, politically, and socially relevant. The book appears professionally copy-edited and easy to read. I see essentially no errors in this book.
If you are looking for deep mathematical comprehensiveness of exercises, this may not be the right book, but for most introductory statistics students who are not pursuing deeper options in math/stat, this is very comprehensive. In particular, the malaria case study and stokes case study add depth and real-world meaning to the topics covered, and there is a thorough coverage of distributions.
This book has both the standard selection of topics from an introductory statistics course along with several in-depth case studies and some extended topics. Reviewed by Leanne Merrill, Assistant Professor, Western Oregon University on 6/14/21 Journalism, Media Studies & Communications.