The book, designed as an introductory text, presents fundamental concepts and techniques of statistical inference. It has been written primarily to cater to the needs of students and researchers in the agricultural science field. An essential understanding of the logic and theory of statistics is expected from agricultural students, who are expected to be proficient in data analysis and drawing useful conclusions.

The authors have aimed to keep the book at a readability level suitable for students without a strong mathematical background.

This book can serve as a comprehensive reference source of statistical techniques beneficial to agricultural research workers in the interpretation of data.

01. Introduction 02. Classification, Tabulation and Graphical Representation 03. Measures of Central Values 04. Measures of Dispersion 05. Probability 06. Probability Distributions 07. Sampling and Sampling Distributions 08. Test of Significance 09. Chi-Square and Association of Attributes 10. Correlation and Regression 11. Analysis of Variance 12. Design of Experiments 13. Multiple Comparison Tests 14. Factorial Experiments 15. Split Plot Design