Includes index.

Contents: The role of statistics and the data analysis process -- Collecting data sensibly -- Graphical methods of collecting data -- Numerical methods for describing data -- summarizing bivariate data -- Probability -- Population distribution -- Sampling variability and sampling distributions -- Estimation using a single example -- Hypothesis testing using a single sample -- Comparing two population or treatments -- The analysis of categorical data and goodness-of-fit test -- Simple linear regression and correlation; inferential methods -- Multiple regression analysis – Analysis of variance – Nonparametric (distribution free) statistical methods --