The book, designed as an introductory text, presents fundamental concepts and techniques of statistical inference. It has been written primarily to cater to the needs of students and researchers in the agricultural science field. An essential understanding of the logic and theory of statistics is expected from agricultural students, who are expected to be proficient in data analysis and drawing useful conclusions.

The authors have aimed to keep the book at a readability level suitable for students without a strong mathematical background.

This book can serve as a comprehensive reference source of statistical techniques beneficial to agricultural research workers in the interpretation of data.