Includes index.

Preface -- 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 of hypothesis -- Two-sample tests of hypothesis -- Analysis of variance -- Correlation and linear regression -- Multiple regression analysis -- Nonparametric methods : goodness-of-fit tests -- Appendixes -- Appendix A: Data sets -- Appendix B: Tables -- Appendix C: Answers to odd-numbered chapter.