This highly successful book gives the reader a solid foundation in statistical theory and, at the same time, provides an indication of the relevance and importance of the theory in solving practical problems in the real world. What is Statistics?, Probability, Discrete Random Variables and Their Probability Distributions, Continuous Random Variables and Their Probability Distributions, Multivariate Probability Distributions, Functions of Random Variables, Sampling Distributions and the Central Limit Theorem, Estimation, Properties of Point Estimators and Methods of Estimation, Hypothesis Testing, Linear Models and Estimation by Least Squares, Considerations in Designing Experiments, The Analysis of Variance, Analysis of Enumerative Data, Nonparametric Statistics, Appendices, Index.