Dedication.Preface to the 1987 Edition. Preface to the 2002 Edition. Acknowledgments. 1. Introduction. 2. Descriptive Statistics. 3. Basic Probability Concepts. 4. Further Aspects of Probability. 5. Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Testing: General Considerations and Applications. 6. Comparison of Two Groups: t Tests and Rank Tests. 7. Comparison of Two Groups: Chi Square and Related Procedures. 8. Tests of Independence and Measures of Association for Two Random Variables. 9. Least Square Regression Methods: Predicting One Variable from Another. 10. Comparing More Than Two Groups of Observations: Analysis of Variance for Comparing Groups. 11. Comparing More Than Two Groups of Observations: Rank Analysis of Variance for Group Comparisons. 12. Comparing More than Two Groups of Observations: Chi Square and Related Procedures. 13. Special Topics in Analysis of Epidemiologic and Clinical Data: Studying Association between a Disease and a Characteristic. 14. Estimation and Comparison of Survival Curves. 15. Multiple Linear Regression Methods: Predicting One Variable from Two or More Other Variables. Appendix.Topic Index.