I: Introduction. - 1The Nature of Statistics. - II: Descriptive Statistics. - 2 Organization of Data. - 3 Measures of Location. - 4 Measures of Variability. - 5 Summarizing Multivariate Data: Association Between Numerical Scales. - 6 Summarizing Multivariate Data: Association Between Categorical Variables. - III: Probability. - 7 Basic Ideas of Probability. - 8 Probability Distributions. - 9 Sampling Distributions. - IV: Statistical Inference. - 10 Using a Sample to Estimate Characteristics of One Population. - 11 Answering Questions about Population Characteristics. - 12 Differences Between Populations. - 13 Variability in One Population and in Two Populations. - V: Statistical Methods for Other Problems. - 14 Inference on Categorical Data. - 15 Simple Regression Analysis. - 16 Comparison of Several Populations. - 17 Sampling from Populations: Sample Surveys. - Answers to Selected Exercises. - References. - Appendices. - Appendix I Table of the Standard Normal Distribution. - Appendix II Table of Binomial Probabilities. - Appendix IV Percentage Points of Chi-Square Distributions. - Appendix VI Table of Random Digits. Language: English