Statistics, data, and statistical thinking -- Methods for describing sets of data -- Probability -- Random variables and probability distributions -- Continuous random variables -- Sampling distributions -- Inferences based on a single sample : estimation with confidence intervals -- Inferences based on a single sample : tests of hypotheses -- Inferences based on two samples : confidence intervals and tests of hypotheses -- Design of experiments and analysis of variance -- Categorical data analysis -- Simple linear regression -- Multiple regression and model building -- Methods for quality improvement : statistical process control (available on CD) -- Time series : descriptive analyses, models, and forecasting (available on CD) -- Nonparametric statistics (available on CD) -- Answers to selected exercises -- Index -- Credits