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Part I: Vital Statistics about Statistics.

Chapter 1: The Statistics of Everyday Life.

Chapter 2: Statistics Gone Wrong.

Chapter 3: Tools of the Trade.

Part II: Number-Crunching Basics.

Chapter 4: Getting the Picture: Charts and Graphs.

Chapter 5: Means, Medians, and More.

Part III: Determining the Odds.

Chapter 6: What Are the Chances? Understanding Probability.

Chapter 7: Gambling to Win.

Part IV: Wading through the Results.

Chapter 8: Measures of Relative Standing.

Chapter 9: Caution: Sample Results Vary!

Chapter 10: Leaving Room for a Margin of Error.

Part V: Guesstimating with Confidence.

Chapter 11: The Business of Estimation: Interpreting and Evaluating Confidence Intervals.

Chapter 12: Calculating Accurate Confidence Intervals.

Chapter 13: Commonly Used Confidence Intervals: Formulas and Examples.

Part VI: Putting a Claim to the (Hypothesis) Test.

Chapter 14: Claims, Tests, and Conclusions.

Chapter 15: Commonly Used Hypothesis Tests: Formulas and Examples.

Part VII: Statistical Studies: The Inside Scoop.

Chapter 16: Polls, Polls, and More Polls.

Chapter 17: Experiments: Medical Breakthroughs or Misleading Results?

Chapter 18: Looking for Links: Correlations and Associations.

Chapter 19: Statistics and Toothpaste: Quality Control.

Part VIII: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 20: Ten Criteria for a Good Survey.

Chapter 21: Ten Common Statistical Mistakes.

Appendix: Sources.

Index.