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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Graphical Display Methods -- 3. Measures of Central Location and Dispersion -- 4. Probability -- 5. Discrete Random Variables -- 6. Continuous Random Variables -- 7. Sampling and Sampling Distributions -- 8. Statistical Estimation -- 9....