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Contents: Data and statistics -- Descriptive statistics: tabular and graphical presentations -- Descriptive statistics: numerical measures -- Introduction to probability -- Discrete probability distributions -- Continuous probability distributions -- Sampling and sampling distributions -- Interval estimation --Hypothesis tests -- Statistical inference about means and proportions with two populations -- Inferences about population variances -- Tests of goodness of fit and independence -- Experimental design and analysis of variances -- Simple linear regression -- Multiple regression -- Regression analysis: model building -- Time series analysis and forecasting -- Non-parametric methods.