Geoffrey M. Clarke is the author of A Basic Course in Statistics, 5th Edition, published by Wiley. D. Cooke is the author of A Basic Course in Statistics, 5th Edition, published by Wiley.

• IntroductionList of projectsNotation1. Populations and variates2. Measures of the centre of a set of observations3. Samples and populations4. The measurement of variability5. Looking at data6. Probability7. Probabilities of compound events8. Discrete random variables9. Expectation of random variables10. Joint distributions11. Estimation12. Collecting data13. Significance testing14. Continuous random variables15. The normal distribution16. Sampling distributions of means and related quantities17. Significance tests using the normal distribution18. Estimation of intervals and parameters19. Hypothesis tests using the y2 distribution20. The Poisson distribution21. Correlation22. The analysis of variance23. Simple linear regression24. Multiple regressionAppendix I. The binomial series expansionAppendix II. The exponential functionAppendix III. Derivatives and integrals of the exponential functionAppendix IV. Integrals related to the normal distributionAppendix V. The limit of (1 + x/n)n as n OC OCAppendix VI. A derivation of the Poisson distributionAppendix VII. Partial differentiationBibliographyAnswersHints on computing exercisesTablesIndex