<P>This book primarily is a collection of interesting probability paradoxes and examples, gathered from many books and articles. The author’s aim was to give a comprehensive presentation of the subject in entertaining manner. The book includes more than 300 pictures, 150 epigraphs, many test questions and numeric examples.</P>
<P>The first part of the book can be used as an introduction to the theory of probability. Most difficult theorems are not proven, but explained, illustrated and the readers are walked though these as they attempt to solve the problems. The second part of the book is devoted to mathematical statistics: parameter estimation and hypothesis testing. All included problems have detailed solutions.</P>
<P>The third part of the book contains sample problems for the most important methods and algorithms, such as nonparametric ANOVA(analysis of variance), principal components, hierarchical classification, rank correlation and regression.</P>
<P>The author is a professor of the Lomonosov Moscow State University.</P>
<P>The book is intended for undergraduate students.</P>

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