1. Preliminaries -- 2. Distribution-free statistics -- 3. U-statistics -- 4. Power functions and their properties -- 5. Asymptotic relative efficiency of tests -- 6. Confidence intervals and bounds -- 7. Point estimation -- 8. Linear rank statistics under the null hypothesis -- 9. Two-sample location and scale problems -- 10. The one-sample location problem -- 11. Additional methods for constructing distribution-free procedures -- 12. Other important problems