A Bayesian Perspective is a general introductory test that only assumes familiarity with college algebra and offers the following significant it is the only introductory textbook based on Bayesian ideas, it combines concepts and methods, it presents statistics as a means of integrating data into the scientific process, it develops ideas through uncommonly interesting and real-world examples, it introduces, early on, ideas of data analysis and experimental design, and it includes a data disk that also contains Minitab macros specifically useful for calculations.