Summary

The sixth edition of Statistics:
- provides a first-class introduction to the subject with careful, lucid explanations;
- discusses statistics in six parts:
- Introduction
- Compilation and presentation
- Frequency distributions
- Correlation
- Time series and index numbers
- Sampling theory and inference;
- offers complete coverage of introductory professional and academic courses on statistics and quantitative methods;
- features end-of-chapter assignments, numerous practice questions with worked answers and a large appendix of examination questions.