Written specifically for students majoring in the sciences, this introductory textbook uses examples from the natural and physical sciences to demonstrate the concepts and procedures relevant to the interpretation of statistical results and the procedures used to derive them. Chapters address the description and summation of data, probability, discrete random variables, success/failure experiments, hypotheses testing, continuous random variables, sampling experiments, the z and t tests, estimation, correlation and regression, inference, resampling methods, and other such topics. The authors are affiliated with Loyola University Chicago. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)