Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Introduction and descriptive statistics -- Probability -- Random variables -- The normal distribution -- Sampling and sampling distributions -- Confidence intervals -- Hypothesis testing -- The Comparison of two populations -- Analysis of variance -- Simple linear regression and correlation -- Multiple regression -- Time series, forcasting and index numbers -- Quality control and improvement -- Noneparametric methods and chi-square tests -- Bayesian statistics and decision analysis -- Multivariate analysis -- Sampling methods -- Appendix A: References -- Appendix B: Answers to most odd-numbered problems -- Appendix C: Statistical tables.

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