This book retains the pedagogical strengths that made the previous editions so popular, including the use of real data in the examples. Topics included in this book are nonparametric statistics, p-values in hypothetical testing, residual analysis, quality control and experiment design. · an introduction to probability · one-dimensional random variables · functions of one random variable and expectation · joint probability distributions · some important discrete distributions · some important continuous distributions · the normal distribution · introduction to statistics and data description · random samples and sampling distributions · parameter estimation · tests of hypotheses · design and analysis of single-factor the analysis of variance · design of experiments with several factors · simple linear regression and correlation · multiple regression · nonparametric statistics · statistical quality control and reliability engineering · stochastic processes