ABSTRACT
The widespread availability of powerful computers has revolutionized society. The field of statistics is no exception. Twenty years ago, the typical statistician had a collection of tables and charts, without which he or she would have been lost. Today one can perform complex statistical analyses without ever referring to a printed table, relying instead on the statistical functions available in many standard software packages. The ubiquitous availability of personal computing power and sophisticated programming packages permit us to approach statistics today in a less mathematical, more intuitive manner than is possible with the traditional formulabased approach.
