The development of economic and business activities has compelled the Government and businessmen to consider the statistical data as an integral part of their day-to-day activities. Statistical data, when analyzed properly, provide the much needed information for various business and policy decisions. Keeping this in mind, this text is written with the sole aim of providing the statistical techniques in a clear and simple form for the benefit of the academic community in general and the PG and UG students of Commerce in particular.
Contents :
1. Introduction
2. Collection of Data
3. Classificationa and Tabulation of Data
4. Diagrammatic and Graphic Presentation
5. Sampling and Sample Design
6. Measures of Central Tendency
7. Measures of Dispersion
8. Skewness, Kurtosis and Moments
9. Correlation Analysis
10. Regression Analysis
11. Index Numbers
12. Analysis of Time Series
13. Interpolation and Extrapolation
14. Probability
15. Theoritical Distributions
16. Linear Programming
17. Set Theory
18. Matrices and Determination
Appendix I Formulaes
Appendix II Tables
