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Includes index.

1.What Is Statistics? -- 2. Describing Data: Frequency Tables, Frequency Distributions, and Graphic Presentation -- 3. Describing Data: Numerical Measures -- 4. Describing Data: Displaying and Exploring Data -- 5. A Survey of Probability Concepts -- 6. Discrete Probability Distributions -- 7. Continuous Probability Distributions -- 8. Sampling Methods and the Central Limit Theorem -- 9. Estimation and Confidence Intervals -- 10. One-Sample Tests of Hypothesis -- 11. Two-Sample Tests of Hypothesis -- 12. Analysis of Variance -- 13. Correlation and Linear Regression -- 14. Multiple Regression Analysis -- 15. Nonparametric Methods: Nominal Level Hypothesis Tests -- 16. Nonparametric Methods: Analysis of Ordinal Data -- 17. Index Numbers -- 18. Time Series and Forecasting -- 19. Statistical Process Control and Quality Management.