Statistics or the handling of data. A handy introduction including exercises: Statistik oder der Umgang mit Daten. Eine praktische Einfuehrung mit Uebungen

The book is for non-specialists visiting an introductory course in statistics. It does not only give a description of conventional statistical methods but discusses also limits and alternatives. It avoids mathematics without excessively simplifying basic concepts. Topics: mean values, variance measures, distribution functions, probabilities, random samples, correlation, regression, factor analysis, graphical representation, tables, remarks on empirical scientific working. Each chapter ends up with exercises.