Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction and data collection -- Presenting data in tables and charts -- Numerical descriptive measures -- Basic probability -- Some important discrete probability distributions -- The normal distribution and other continuous distributions -- Sampling distributions and sampling -- Confidence interval estimation -- Fundamentals of hypothesis testing : one-sample tests -- Two-sample tests and one-way anova -- Chi-square tests and nonparametric tests -- Simple linear regression -- Introduction to multiple regression -- Statistical applications in quality management.