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Business Statistics, Second Edition
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Business Statistics, Second Edition

by J. K. Sharma
November 2006
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
744 pages
29h 18m
English
Pearson India
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Chapter 2

Data Classification, Tabulation and Presentation

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

After studying this chapter, you should be able to

  • understand types of data and the basis of their classification.

  • use techniques of organizing data in tabular and graphical form in order to enhance data analysis and interpretation.

It's not the figures themselves…, it's what you do with them that matters.

—K. A. C. Manderville

If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.

—Ronald Coase

2.1 INTRODUCTION

In Chapter 1, we learned how to collect data through primary and/or secondary sources. Whenever a set of data that we have collected contains a large number of observations, the best way to examine such data is to present it in some compact and orderly ...

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ISBN: 9789332503434