chapter 1 An Introduction to R -- chapter 2 Simple Inference: Guessing Lengths, Wave Energy, Water Hardness, Piston Rings, and Rearrests of Juveniles -- chapter 3 Conditional Inference: Guessing Lengths, Suicides, Gastrointestinal Damage, and Newborn Infants -- chapter 4 Analysis of Variance: Weight Gain, Foster Feeding in Rats, Water Hardness and Male Egyptian Skulls -- chapter 5 Multiple Linear Regression: Cloud Seeding -- chapter 6 Logistic Regression and Generalised Linear Models: Blood Screening, Women’s Role in Society, and Colonic Polyps -- chapter 7 Density Estimation: Erupting Geysers and Star Clusters -- chapter 8 Recursive Partitioning: Large Companies and Glaucoma Diagnosis -- chapter 9 Survival Analysis: Glioma Treatment and Breast Cancer Survival -- chapter 10 Analysing Longitudinal Data I: Computerised Delivery of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy–Beat the Blues -- chapter 11 Analysing Longitudinal Data II – Generalised Estimation Equations: Treating Respiratory Illness and Epileptic Seizures -- chapter 12 Meta-Analysis: Nicotine Gum and Smoking Cessation and the Effcacy of BCG Vaccine in the Treatment of Tuberculosis -- chapter 13 Principal Component Analysis: The Olympic Heptathlon -- chapter 14 Multidimensional Scaling: British Water Voles and Voting in US Congress -- chapter 15 Cluster Analysis: Classifying the Exoplanets.