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Satish Serial Publishing House Statistics for Biological Engineering and Social Sciences by M Thirunavukkarasu
We now-a-days find data – both quantitative and qualitative – everywhere, generated from various surveys and experiments. These data, which are primarily raw in nature, are seldom useful to the individual or society or decision-maker, unless they are converted into information, to arrive at some meaningful conclusion about the data. The knowledge of statistics plays a vital role to convert the raw data into useful information which would certainly be valuable for improving the decision-making process and ultimately resulting in the goals, being aimed at, achieved. There is hardly any branch of discipline, which does not use statistics for its growth and development. Individuals, governments, organizations, and businesses all collect data to help them to track progress, measure performance, analyze problems, and prioritize avenues of growth. Statistics are not just numbers and facts. Instead, it is an array of knowledge and procedures that allow us to learn from the data more effectively. Statistical knowledge helps us to use proper methods to collect data, employ correct analytical techniques, and present the results effectively. More clearly, the knowledge of statistics will help to present the facts in a definite form, simplify the mass of data, facilitate comparison of data, formulate and test the hypothesis and help in prediction of the future. Hence, even if statistics is not one’s own primary field of study, it helps him/her to make an impact in his/her chosen field. There are very higher chances high that one will be required to have a working knowledge of statistics to produce new findings in his/her own field and to understand the work of others. The world today produces more data and thus, a better knowledge of statistics is all the more required than ever before. Thus, understanding statistics is highly important these days, irrespective of one’s own major discipline. That is the reason why, there is and there will be a high demand for statistical skills in a wide variety of areas: universities, research labs, government, industry, etc. and in variety of disciplines: biological sciences, engineering sciences and social sciences. This book written with the basic objective of infusing the knowledge of statistics into the backbone of every discipline one may care to mention is expected to provide the basics and the applications of statistics for those who require them.