Preface

This book “Statistical Techniques for Transportation Engineering” is mainly designed to meet the requirements of engineering students of various Indian Universities. It is intended to be used as a text in basic statistics for the transportation engineering applications of probability and statistics in traffic engineering problems have markedly increased during the past two decades. These techniques are helpful in the study of vehicular traffic. The present text discusses in detail the procedures that have been found useful in treatment of several types of problems encountered by the traffic engineers and it forms the basis of a first course in statistics. It lays foundation necessary to understand the basics of statistical applications in Transportation engineering and other branches of civil engineering.

The topics covered in this book are, Measures of central tendency, Measures of dispersion, Probability, Curve fitting, Correlation and Regression, Sampling, Hypothesis testing, Tests of significance, Index numbers, and Time series. All the concepts have been well presented. The explanations are clear. Numerical examples have been worked out throughout the book to illustrate the concepts and explained the techniques of solving the problems. We earnestly hope that the comprehensive treatment of the various topics covered in the book will be welcomed by both the teachers and the students.

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