Includes index.

Contents: The Nature of probability and statistics -- Frequency distributions and graphs -- Data description -- Probability and counting rules -- Discrete probability distributions -- The Normal distribution -- Confidence intervals and sample size -- Hypothesis testing -- Testing the difference between two means, two variances, and two proportions -- Correlation and regression -- Other chi-square tests -- Analysis of variance -- Nonparementric statistics -- Sampling and simulation -- Appendix A: Algebra review -- Appendix B-1: Writing the research report -- Appendix B-2: Bayes' theorem -- Appendix B-3: Alternative method for the standard normal distribution -- Appendix C: Tables -- Appendix D: Data bank.