When you deal with statistics, you will primarily have to cope with numbers, figures, data, tables, and visual aids in the form of diagrams.

It might be a good idea to thumb your way through this compact course in elementary statistics within a few minutes before you have a closer look at those items that interest you most. Browsing through unit after unit, looking at this and that for orientation or out of curiosity, you will get a rough idea of what this user manual can do for you and of what lies ahead of you. Moreover, as a by-product, so to speak, you will automatically and effortlessly pick up and remember several essential statistical terms as you go along. They appear in bold throughout this booklet. Memorize these high frequency topical terms and recycle them in the new context of your exercise and examination papers whenever it is possible and adequate to do so. A good command of the technical terms often used by analysts and other experts is essential for a good performance.

And recycling useful high frequency expressions works wonders. Just give it a try!