The book covers all aspects of Statistics and its application in practical field to cater to the needs of the research scholars and students of Engineering, Medical, Commerce, Economics, BBA and MBA, Biotechnology, Applied Microbiology, Environmental Science and the many, who are required to learn the subject and to apply its techniques and methods in their sphere of work. Real world data, particularly from biology, industry, agriculture and census have been taken in explaining various statistical techniques.

Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Collection of Data. 3. Representation of Data. 4. Measures of Central Tendency. 5. Measures of dispersion. 6. Skewness. moments and Kurtosis. 7. Probability basic cocnepts.8. Probability distributions. 9. Design of experiments. 10. Sampling distribution: statistical inference. 11. Hypothesis testing. 12. analysis of variance (Anova). 13. Simple regression analysis. 14. Correlation. 15. Non-parametric tests. 16. Time series analysis. 17. Index numbers. Terms used.