Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Sttatistics, data and statistical thinking -- Methods for describing sets of data -- Probability -- Discrete random variables -- Continuous random variables -- Sampling distribution -- Inferences based on a single sample: estimation with confidence intervals -- Inferences based on a single sample: tests of hypotheis -- Inferences based on two samples: confidences intervals and tests of hypotheses -- Analysis of variance: comparing more than two means -- Simple linear regression -- Multiple regression and model building -- The Chi-square test and the analysis of contingency tables -- Nonparametric statistics -- Appendix A: Tables -- Appendix B: Data sets -- Appendix C: Calculation formulas for analysis of variance.