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As in the companion volume, Business Statistics by Example, I have taken advantage of inductive exposition, for students have been found to gain both confidence and interest by working on practical examples from the start: and facility at calculation can often lead to familiarity with theory. Indeed, a book of fewer than 30,000 words could hardly cover the essentials of several distinct mathematical disciplines on the conventional method - proof - application pattern, and to interlard working accounts with overmuch theory would delay rat her than advance the learning process. But I hope that some readers will be curious about methods they are expected to accept on trust, and for them an Appendix exposes some ofthe foundations ofthe structure they have been using. Ultimately, a knowledge oftheory will enhance practical skill, because the use and limitation of particular mathematical tools will be better understood. Induction and deduction are complementary and not confticting processes.
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