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Contents:What is statistics? -- Describing data: Frequency tables, frequency distributions, and graphic presentation -- Describing data: Numerical measures -- Describing data: Displaying and exploring data -- A Survey of probability concepts -- Discrete probability distributions -- Continuous probability distributions -- Sampling methods and the central limit theorem -- Estimation and confidence intervals -- One-simple tests of hypothesis -- Two-simple tests of hypothesis -- Analysis of variance -- Correlation and linear regression -- Multiple regression analysis -- Index numbers -- Time series and forecasting -- Nonparametric methods: Goodness-of-fit tests -- Nonparametric methods: Analysis of ranked data -- Statistical process control and quality management -- An introduction to decision theory.