Includes bibliographical references and index.

The where, why, and how of data collection -- Graphs, charts, and tables : describing your data -- Describing data using numerical measures -- Introduction to probability -- Discrete probability distributions -- Introduction to continuous probability distributions -- Introduction to sampling distributions -- Estimating single population parameters -- Introduction to hypothesis testing -- Estimation and hypothesis testing for two population parameters -- Hypothesis tests and estimation for population variances -- Analysis of variance -- Goodness-of-fit tests and contingency analysis -- Introduction to linear regression and correlation analysis -- Multiple regression analysis and model building -- Analyzing and forecasting time-series data -- Introduction to nonparametric statistics -- Introduction to quality and statistical process control.