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The present book is a statistical course for undergraduate students in all
fields of social and economic sciences. The book presents a manual on the
course "General Theory of Statistics", including a series of not quite
traditional topics. First of all, it concerns the mathematical bases of
statistics and use of computer technologies in statistical probing. Thematic
choice of the chapters and sections of the book is caused not only by interests
and tastes of the authors, but also by modern tendencies in applied statistics
and orientation of the given work. The book is based on a course of lectures
given by the first author for undergraduates in social and economic sciences
along with three books published in Russian and English in Estonia, Lithuania
and Byelorussia.
This book has been written for a large enough audience of teachers, researchers,
statisticians, students, collegians and users of statistics in behavioral and
social sciences. Above all, the book is directed to a wide circle of the
readers studying statistical disciplines in high schools and colleges; however,
it can be useful also to persons independently studying statistics.
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