Lecture notes meet the requirements of the State educational standard of higher professional education. Accessibility and brevity of presentation allow you to quickly and easily obtain basic knowledge on the subject, prepare and successfully pass tests and exams. General issues of the theory of statistics, methods of groupings, relative and average values, indicators of variation, correlation and dynamic analysis, economic indices in relation to solving management problems in commercial activities in the market of goods and services, economic and mathematical methods in statistical research. For students of economic universities and colleges, as well as those who independently study this subject.