Statistics and Their Application to Commerce (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Statistics and Their Application to Commerce<br><br>The value of Statistics has long been recognised in connection with Social and Economic investigation and in certain specialised branches of Commerce, such as Banking and Insurance; but there has been no serious attempt to link up the science of Statistics with Commerce.<br><br>This little Manual has been prepared to meet the requirements of Business men and to promote interest in the maintenance and use of Statistical records in commercial undertakings, so that they may form part of the machinery of scientific management.<br><br>The book does not pretend to solve the many problems which confront the business man, as many of these are clearly peculiar to each individual case, but is intended as a guide to the methods to be used by those who may be interested in the subject.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.