Statistical techniques re being increasingly used as a tool for research and
interpretation of data in all branches of knowledge, particularly in library.
Statistical techniques helps one to draw conclusions about the world around us
from quantitative, but limited and more or less imperfect observations. This
book explains the principle techniques used by librarians for arriving at their
conclusions and for making decisions in the fare of the inevitable uncertainty
that surrounds their observations. This book has been written, keeping in mind,
the urgent need of library students of B. Lib. Sc,. M. Phil. and Ph. D., who
require to analyses their data at on stage or the other It was thought to give
basic understanding of statistical techniques and it's applications. This book
deals with collection of data, presentation of data central tendency,
variability, correlations, regressions, significant differences between means,
non-parametric methods, etc. full care has been taken to make minimum use of the
mathematical sysmbols.
Preface
1. Statistics-What and Why for Librarians
2. conducting a Statistical Investigation
3. Primary and Secondary Date: Sources and Methods of Collection
4. Classification and Tabulation
5.Presentation of Data
6. Measures of Central Tendency
7. Measures of Dispersion
8. Skewness
9. Testing Differences between Means
10. Moments
11. Chi-Square
12. Correlation Analysis
13. Testing Differences Between correlations
14.Regression Analysis
15. Special Correlations
16. Time Series Analysis
17. Non-Parametric Statistics
Glossary
Chapter Achievment Test
Answers to Chapter Achievment Test
Exercise
Appendix
.L.Sehgal M.A. (Eco) and M.L.I.Sc. from Delhi University is at present Sr.
Documentation Officer, Human Settlement Management Institute, New Delhi. He is
life member of many professional bodies in the field of Library & Information
science. He has visited Holland as part of his fellowship. He has written
extensively in about 8 to 10 Journals. To his credit is a pioneering Volume is
author of Classification; Theory & Practice; Cataloguing: Theory & Practice;
Number Building in Dewey Decimal Classification; Number Building in Universal
decimal Classification; Number Building in Colon Classification. Other
publications to his credit are Statistical Methods for Librarians; Universal
Decimal Classification: Structure & Methodology all published by Ess Ess
Publications, New Delhi 110002
