This book on "Basic statistics", "adopts an approach which is simple and easily understandable to enable the reader to jettison his or her fears for
statistics and enjoy his or her reading.This will definitely equip the reader better not only for examination purposes but also for a better appreciation of statistics for solving lifes'''' problems".This is a quote from the preface of the book which is written particularly for beginners and for those who find statistics "insurmountable".
Chapter one
discusses the meaning of statistics, its uses and
Basic terminologies.Chapter two discusses
data and data collection in a manner that proves interesting.Chapters three and four discusses data presentation, tabular presentation is discussesd in chapter three while charts and graphs are treated in chapter four.Measures of central tendency and measures of dispersion are considered in
Chapters five and six respectively,while chapter seven is
concerned with discussion on shapes of distributions.
Chapters eight and nine are concerned with probability and probability
distributions respectively.Chapter ten discusses correlation and regression while test of statistical hypotheses otherwise known as significance tests are treated in chapter eleven.Chapter twelve discusses analysis of variance while chapters thirteen and fourteen considers index numbers and analysis of time series in that order.
This book is written in an easy to read and easy to understand manner and any reader qwill find it helpful.
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