Bibliography: (pages 283-284) and index.

Introduction -- The nature of a distribution -- Simple data presentation -- Further methods of data presentation -- Simple interpretation of probability plots -- The uniform distribution -- The normal distribution background -- Normal probability papers -- The logarithmic normal distribution -- Engineering applications of the log-normal distribution -- The extreme value distribution -- Engineering applications of the extreme value distribution -- The logarithmic extreme value distribution -- The Weibull distribution -- Further consideration of the Weibull distribution -- Reciprocal functions -- The gamma distribution -- The Chi-Square distribution -- Hazard plotting for incomplete data and failure data with different causes -- Binomial functions -- Bradley bionomial plotting paper -- Engineering and other applications of binomial plotting papers -- Summary and conclusions.