chapter 1 An Introduction to R -- chapter 2 Data Analysis Using Graphical Displays: Malignant Melanoma in the USA and Chinese Health and Family Life -- chapter 3 Simple Inference: Guessing Lengths, Wave Energy, Water Hardness, Piston Rings, and Rearrests of Juveniles -- chapter 4 Conditional Inference: Guessing Lengths, Suicides, Gastrointestinal Damage, and Newborn Infants -- chapter 5 Analysis of Variance: Weight Gain, Foster Feeding in Rats, Water Hardness and Male Egyptian Skulls -- chapter 6 Simple and Multiple Linear Regression: How Old is the Universe and Cloud Seeding -- chapter 7 Logistic Regression and Generalised Linear Models: Blood Screening, Women’s Role in Society, Colonic Polyps, and Driving and Back Pain -- chapter 8 Density Estimation: Erupting Geysers and Star Clusters -- chapter 9 Recursive Partitioning: Predicting Body Fat and Glaucoma Diagnosis -- chapter 10 Scatterplot Smoothers and Generalised Additive Models: The Men’s Olympic 1500m, Air Pollution in the USA, and Risk Factors for Kyphosis -- chapter 11 Survival Analysis:Glioma Treatment and Breast Cancer Survival -- chapter 12 Analysing Longitudinal Data I:Computerised Delivery of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy – Beat the Blues -- chapter 13 Analysing Longitudinal Data II –Generalised Estimation Equations and Linear Mixed Effect Models: Treating Respiratory Illness and Epileptic Seizures -- chapter 14 Simultaneous Inference and Multiple Comparisons: Genetic Components of Alcoholism, Deer Browsing Intensities, and Cloud Seeding -- chapter 15 Meta-Analysis: Nicotine Gum and Smoking Cessation and the Efficacy of BCG Vaccine in the Treatment of Tuberculosis -- chapter 16 Principal Component Analysis: The Olympic Heptathlon -- chapter 17 Multidimensional Scaling: British Water Voles and Voting in US Congress -- chapter 18 Cluster Analysis: Classifying Romano-British Pottery and Exoplanets.