Advanced Statistics

Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. Measures of central tendency. 3. Measures of variability. 4. Skewness moment and Kurtosis. 5. Correlation analysis. 6. Regression analysis. 7. Index numbers. 8. Time series analysis. 9. Probability: an introduction. 10. Probability distributions. 11. Normal distribution. 12. Estimation. 13. Hypothesis testing. 14. Non-parametric methods. 15. Statistical quantity control.

Statistics as a subject has come to acquire a great deal of importance during the past few decades. It is being increasingly used in different areas of human activity agriculture, biology medicine psychology sociology and other disciplines in the social sciences. This has come about because the basic concepts and principles of statistics are essentially the same, irrespective of the area in which these are south to b applied. The statistical method presented in this book are of a general nature. However, it is designed to serve the particular purpose of a textbook for an exhaustive course in statistics offered by many Indian and foreign universities, in the disciplines of commerce, economics and management.