The main objective of the course is to give the student an elementary introduction to the practice of statistics. This course will give insight into how an analyst gathers, summarizes, and draws conclusions from economical or business data. At the end of the course, the student should be a critical consumer of this information.

Basic definitions and consepts of statistics, variable definitions, frequency distributions for quantitavive variables, frequency distributions of qualitative variables, graphics, measures of central tendency and measures of dispersion, application of methods using statistical software