This is an introductory unit in statistics designed for students in commerce and management discipline areas. Emphasis is placed on the application of statistical techniques to those disciplines. Topics include populations and samples; the presentation and interpretation of data; measures of central tendency and variability; index numbers; simple linear regression and correlation; an introduction to time series; basic probability; the binomial, Poisson and normal distributions; and estimation and hypothesis testing. Analyses will be carried out using Microsoft Excel.