What is statistics? How is it applied to the health sciences? -- Defining populations and selecting samples -- Systematic organization and display of data -- Summary statistics -- Basic probability -- The normal distribution -- Sampling distributions for means -- Estimating population means -- Tests of hypotheses -- Inferences regarding proportions -- Categorical data and chi-square tests -- Correlation, linear regression, and logistic regression -- One-way analysis of variance -- Nonparametric methods -- Analysis of survival times -- Software packages for statistical analysis.