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This edition has been retitled Volume 2A: Classical Inference and the Linear Model, to emphasize the traditional emphasis on the frequentist approach. Statistical inference appears in the first part of the book (Chapters 17-26) and the coverage of the linear model is in the second part (Chapters 27-32). These changes involved both the redesigh of existing chapters and the creation of several new ones. Chapter 18 now covers both mazimum likelihood and other approaches to inference, while Chapters 19-22 broadly correspond to Chapters 20-23 and 25 in the fifth edition. As before, the material on the linear model starts out with two chapters on correlation. The material on least squares estimation has been consolidated into Chapter 29 and leads into two new chapters (30 and 31) on the analysis of variance, developed by Steven Arnold. The volume closes with Chapter 32 on modeling and diagnosis.