Inductive statistics. An introduction with SPSS for Windows. With contributions by Angela Dörfler and Nina Quitzau. (Q1774489)

[For the review of the second edition from 2000 see Zbl 0934.62004.] The book contains three parts. The first part containing five chapters covers basic probability theory. The headings of the chapters are as follows: Chapter 1: Kombinatorik (Combinatorics); Ch.~2: Elemente der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung (Basic probability theory); Ch.~3: Zufällige Variablen (Random Variables); Ch.~4: Diskrete und stetige Standardverteilungen (Discrete and continuous standard distributions) and Ch.~5: Grenzwertsätze und Approximationen (Limit theorems and approximations). The second part of the book discusses inductive statistics and its three chapters are headed as follows: Ch.~6: Schätzung von Parametern (Point estimation); Ch.~7: Prüfen statistischer Hypothesen (Testing statistical hypotheses) and Ch.~8: Nichparametrische Tests (Nonparametric tests). The third and final part of the book covers various statistical models. Specifically, its four chapters cover: Ch.~9: Lineare Regression (Linear regression); Ch.~10: Varianzanalyse (Analysis of variance); Ch.~11: Analyse von Kontigenztafeln (Contingency tables) and Ch.~12: Lebensdaueranalyse (Survival analysis). Each chapter ends with exercises and solutions to these are given in the first appendix of the book. The exercises are a very helpful resource which allow the reader to deepen his or her understanding of the material covered in this book. The second appendix contains some tables. The book is completed by a list of references (two pages) and a subject index, which is very thorough and useful. Throughout the book SPSS output is shown to illustrate methods and work through examples. However, there is no introduction to SPSS given in this book nor are any of the commands that are used to obtain the SPSS output shown.