"Emphasizing the relevance of statistics to students' lives, this undergraduate textbook explains how researchers gather useful data, turn data into information, conduct surveys, ask questions, and discover relationships between quantitative and categorical variables. Topics include probability, random variables, sampling distributions, estimating proportions, testing hypothesis, confidence intervals, significance tests, regression, categorical variables, and analysis of variance."--Provided by publisher. Textbook for MA200 Statistical Methods MA 200.