New edition of a text that provides a conceptual and application-oriented introduction to the field of statistics and its many applications. Anderson and Dennis J. Sweeney (both of the U. of Cincinnati) and Thomas A. Williams (Rochester Institute of Technology) present 21 chapters that cover topics including data and statistics; descriptive statistics tabular, graphical, and numerical methods; discrete and continuous probability, and sampling distributions; interval estimation; hypothesis testing; statistical inference; tests of goodness of fit and independence; analysis of variance and experimental design; simple linear and multiple regression; model building; index numbers; forecasting; nonparametric methods; statistical methods for quality control; and sample survey. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Read Less