Includes bibliographical references and index

Theory of Probability -- Random Variables and Their Distributions -- Three Fundamental Distributions: Binomial, Gaussian, and Poisson -- Functions of Random Variables and Error Propagation -- Maximum Likelihood and Other Methods to Estimate Variables -- Mean, Median, and Average Values of Variables -- Hypothesis Testing and Statistics -- Maximum Likelihood Methods for Two-Variable Datasets -- Multi-Variable Regression -- Goodness of Fit and Parameter Uncertainty