This book provides broad coverage of statistical topics and methods, and goes further to include applications of real-life data and problems across a range of fields. An instructional guide is included showing how to use STATISTICA, SPSS and MATLAB in statistical analysis applications. The book includes the popular free R language as one of the application tools. This new Second Edition includes a section on bootstrap estimation methods, which have earned considerable popularity in practical applications It also expands the section on correlation measures, adding matters such as partial and multiple correlation.