Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: What is statistics? -- Graphical descriptive techniques -- Art and science of graphical presentations -- Numerical descriptive techniques -- Data collection and sampling -- Probability -- Random variables and discrete probability distributions -- Continuous probability distributions -- Sampling distributions-- Introduction to estimation -- Introduction to hypothesis testing -- Inference about a population -- Inference about comparing two populations -- Analysis of variance -- Chi-squared tests -- Nonparametric statistics -- Simple linear regression and correlation -- Multiple regression -- Model building -- Time series analysis and forecasting -- Statistical process control -- Decision analysis -- Apendix A, B and C.

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