Includes index, glossary and appendix

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-sample tests and hypothesis -- Two-sample tests of hypothesis -- Analysis of variance -- Correlation and linear regression -- Multiple regression analysis -- Nonparametric methods: nominal level hypothesis test -- Nonparametric methods: analysis of ordinal data -- Index numbers -- Time series and forecasting -- Statistical process control and quality management -- An introduction to decision theory.