ABSTRACT
THE AIM OF THIS chapter is not to educate the reader in all or even many of the branches of mathematics or aspects of computing, but rather to provide a brief introduction to the arithmetic and computational procedures used in the following chapters. We have assumed a basic level of numeracy, and a general familiarity with the MS Windows’ operating system, but nothing more than this. Those who have pursued a course in mathematics at ‛A’ level or equivalent grades elsewhere may feel confident in skipping the first six sections of this chapter, though all would benefit from the introductory sections that describe the two statistics packages adopted in this book for the execution of the analytical methods described in the following chapters.
