BRIEF CONTENTS

1. The Nature of Statistics 1

2. Describing Data Using Graphs and Tables 38

3. Describing Data Numerically 106

4. Correlation and Regression 186

5. Probability 238

6. Probability Distributions 308

7. Sampling Distributions 394

8. Confidence Intervals 426

9. Hypothesis Testing 486

10. Two-Sample Inference 574

11. Categorical Data Analysis 630

12. Analysis of Variance 664

13. Inference in Regression 714

14. Nonparametric Statistics 14-1

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