What is statistics? -- Graphical and tabular descriptive techniques -- Art and science of graphical presentations -- Numerical descriptive techniques -- Data collection and sampling -- Probability -- Random variables and discrete probability distributions -- Continuous probability distributions -- Sampling distributions -- Introduction to estimation -- Introduction to hypothesis -- Inference about a population -- Inference about comparing two populations -- Analysis of variance -- Chi-squared tests -- Simple linear regression and correlation -- Multiple regression -- Model building -- Nonparametric statistics -- Time series analysis and forecasting -- Statistical process control -- Decision analysis -- Conclusion -- Data file sample statistics -- Tables B-1 -- Answers to selected even-numbered exercises

1. Management -- Statistical methods
2. Industrial management -- Statistical methods -- Computer programs
3. Decision making -- Computer programs