Previous edition: Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Education, 2011.

Includes index.

Statistics, data, and statistical thinking -- Methods for describing sets of data -- Probability -- Random variables and probability distributions -- 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 -- Time series -- Nonparametric statistics.