ABSTRACT
Having collected (or been given) a set of data, the apprentice statistician may be bewildered by the wide variety of statistical methods which are available and so be unsure how to proceed. The details of standard techniques are well covered in other books and will not be repeated here, although a concise digest of selected topics is given in Appendix A. Rather this book is concerned with general strategy such as how to:
process the data;
formulate a sensible model;
choose an appropriate method of analysis.
