includes appendix and index

1. The nature of the statistical method
2. Some fundamental concepts
3. Sources of knowledge
4. The use of numbers
5. Elements of probability calculations
6. Some useful analytical tools
7. Making inferences about the unknown, or the problem of intelligent guessing
8. A theory and method of making inferences about the mean of a universe from information supplied by a random sample
9. Inference ratios as ingredients in planing an decision making
10. Pooling information
11. Inferences about later samples form information about prior samples
12. Inferences from information expressed as a continuous variable
13. Reducing uncertainty by association: the problem and the model for analysis
14. Reducing uncertainty by association: application of the model to practical problems
15. Reducing uncertainty by association: multiple correlation analysis
16. The problem of changes over time
17. The anatomy of an economic time series
18. Forecasting an economic time series
19. Index numbers: the comparison of group characteristics