TY - BOOK AU - Booth, Dexter J. TI - A First Course In Statistics T2 - Foundation instruction right start textbooks SN - 9780905435848 U1 - 519.5 PY - 1982/// CY - New Delhi PB - DP Pub. KW - Business mathematics KW - Mathematical statistics N1 - Part 1 This is statistics: fundamental ideas; asking the question; collecting the data; deriving the statistics; communicating the results. Part 2 Asking questions: questions and statistics; who asks the questions; how to ask questions; how not to ask questions; questionnaire design; when to ask questions. Part 3 Collection of data: primary data; probability and sampling; organizing the data; tabulation of data; secondary data; graphical representation of data. Part 4 Deriving the statistics: single statistics; dispersion; multiple statistics; index numbers; regression; correlation; time series. Part 5 Communicating the results: the general principles of presentation; demonstration tables; pictorial representation; the use of words. Part 6 Answers to exercises N2 - Aimed specifically at the first exam in Statistics of the Royal Society of Arts, this text introduces the subject in a manner that presumes no previous knowledge, requires only basic arithmetic, and never brings in a statistical concept without prior explanation and preparation ER -