UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS BULLETIN 
Issued Weekly 
Vol. XXIII 
December 21, 1925 
No. 16 
[Entered as second-class matter December 11, 1912, at the post office at Urbana, Illinois, under the 
Act of August 24, 1912. Acceptance for mailing at the special rate of postage provided for in 
section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized July 31, 1918.] 
BUREAU OF BUSINESS RESEARCH 
COLLEGE OF COMMERCE AND BUSINESS 
ADMINISTRATION 
BULLETIN NO. 8 
THE METHOD OF ANALYZING 
BUSINESS DATA 
PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, URBANA 
1925