******WRITTEN ACCORDING TO LATEST PATTERN OF THE EXAMINATIONS ALL OVER INDIA. ******ALL SECTIONS ARE THOROUGHLY EXPLAINED WITH AMPLE SHORT MCQ AND LONG QUESTIONS WITH THEIR ANSWERS AND EXPLANATIONS AS WELL. ******2000+ QUESTIONS ARE SOLVED WITH EXPLANATIONS ******20 MODEL PAPERS ALL SOLVED ARE ADDED. ******SUGGESTION PAPERS ALSO ADDED TOPICS TOPICS COVERED ARE AS FOLLOWS ******1. INTRODUCTION: STATISTICS AS A SUBJECT; FUNCTIONS, IMPORTANCE, AND LIMITATIONS OF STATISTICS; ****** 2. COLLECTION, EDITING, AND PRESENTATION OF DATA: PRIMARY DATA AND SECONDARY DATA; METHODS OF COLLECTION; SCRUTINY OF DATA. PRESENTATION OF DATA: TEXTUAL AND TABULAR PRESENTATIONS ******3. FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS: CHARACTERISTICS OF A GOOD AVERAGE; DIFFERENT MEASURES OF AVERAGE; ARITHMETIC ******5. MEASURES OF DISPERSION: MEANING AND OBJECTIVE OF DISPERSION; ******6. MOMENTS, SKEWNESS AND KURTOSIS: MOMENTS; COEFFICIENTS BASED ON MOMENTS; SHEPPARD'S CORRECTION; SKEWNESS; MEASURES OF SKEWNESS; KURTOSIS AND ITS MEASURES. [3L] ******7. CORRELATION AND REGRESSION: ANALYSIS OF BIVARIATE DATA. ******8. INDEX NUMBERS: DEFINITION, CHARACTERISTIC, AND USES OF INDEX NUMBERS; METHODS OF ******9. ANALYSIS OF TIME SERIES: ****PART 2 ****1. THEORY OF PROBABILITY ******2. PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTION OF A RANDOM VARIABLE: DISCRETE AND CONTINUOUS RANDOM VARIABLES; ******3. THEORETICAL PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS: PROBABILITY MASS FUNCTION AND DENSITY FUNCTION; DISCRETE DISTRIBUTIONS ******4. SAMPLING AND SAMPLING DISTRIBUTIONS: SAMPLING VERSUS COMPLETE ENUMERATION; RANDOM AND NONRANDOM SAMPLING; ******5. ESTIMATION: POINT AND INTERVAL ESTIMATION; CRITERIA OF A GOOD ESTIMATOR; METHODS OF POINT ESTIMATION ******6. HYPOTHESES TESTING: CONCEPTS BASIC TO THE HYPOTHESIS TESTING PROCEDURE; STEPS IN HYPOTHESIS TESTING; TYPE I AND TYPE II ERRORS; TWO-TAILED AND ONE-TAILED TESTS ******7. CHI-SQUARE AND ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE: CHI-SQUARE AS A TEST OF INDEPENDENCE