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This book is written for readers not having sound knowledge in statistics. Simultaneously with the presentation of theory and techniques, the possible use of the correponding part of the statistical software package SPSS is shown. The material of the book is divided into six parts. In Part 1 variables, measurements, frequency tables, measures of location and dispersion, graphs, histograms, frequency polygons, and the normal curve are considered. It is also explained how to start with SPSS. Part 2 is devoted to bivariate descriptive statistics: crosstabulations, several kinds of correlation coefficients, scatter plots, linear regression etc. Parts 3 to 5 contain statistical inference. The notions of a sampling distribution, the central limit theorem and confidence intervals are introduced. The rest of the material of those parts is devoted to hypothesis testing. Starting with a general idea of hypothesis testing the author goes through a number of well-known tests: one sample \(t\)-test for means, chi-square test for normality, two-sample \(t\)-test for the equality of means, rank-order tests, chi-square test for independence, etc. Finally, Part 6 contains some topics from multivariate descriptive statistics: crosstabulations and multivariate regression. As an appendix, some essential statistical tables, key equations, and the glossary are added. In order to make a reader capable to replicate all the procedures in the book, a CD with all the data necessary is attached to the book.