The basic practice of statistics / David S. Moore (Purdue University), William I. Notz (The Ohio State University), Michael A. Fligner (University of California at Santa Cruz).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I : Exploring data. Picturing distributions with graphs -- Describing distributions with numbers -- The normal distributions -- Scatterplot sand correlation -- Regression -- Two-way tables -- Exploring data : part I review -- Part II : Producing data. Producing data : sampling -- Producing data : experiments -- Data ethics -- Producing data : part II review -- Part III : From data production to inference. Introducing probability -- General rules of probability -- Binomial distributions -- Sampling distributions -- Confidence intervals : the basics -- Tests of significance : the basics -- Inference in practice -- From data production to inference : part III review -- Part IV : Inference about variables. Inference about a population mean -- Comparing two means -- Inference about a population proportion -- Comparing two proportions -- Inference about variables : part IV review -- Part V : Inference about relationships. Two categorical variables ; the chi-square test -- Inference for regression -- One-way analysis of variance : comparing several means -- Part VI : Optional companion chapters (available online). Nonparametric tests -- Multiple regression -- Two-way analysis of variance -- Statistical process control -- Resampling : permutation tests and the bootstrap.