This document provides an overview of key concepts in statistics that will be covered in the CHM 235 course, including: - The normal distribution and how it relates to sampling from populations. Parameters like the mean, standard deviation, and normal curve shape sampling distributions. - Common statistical tests like confidence intervals, comparing a measured value to a known value, and comparing means of two data sets using t-tests. These tests rely on assumptions of normal distributions and comparing calculated t values to statistical tables. - Additional concepts like variance, relative standard deviation, average deviation, and F-tests to compare standard deviations before applying t-tests. An example takes the reader through each of these statistical calculations and tests.