STAT 110

Course No.

Course Title

Theory

Practice

Credit

Prerequisite(s)

STAT 110

General Statistics

3

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3

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Objectives                                                                                                                      

-    To give the students an understanding of statistics.

-    To learn some commonly used statistical techniques.

 

-    To apply these techniques in describing and analyzing data.

 

-    To use statistics to solve different kind of problems.

 

-    To recognize sound/good statistical studies.

 

-    To gain an appreciation for analytical skills.

 

Course Description

-    What is Statistics?

 

-    Collecting data, graphical presentation and tabulation.

 

-    Measures of central tendency: mean, median, mode and midrange.

 

-    Measures of dispersion: range, variance and standard deviation.

 

-    Z-score,percentiles, outliers and the box-plot.

 

-    Elementary probability: random experiment, sample space, event, and computation of probability. Rules of addition and multiplication, conditional probability and independence, the fundamental counting rule and permutation and combination.

 

-    Random variables, probability distributions, variance and expected value - Some probability distributions (Binomial, and Normal).

 

-    Find the probability for a normal distribution, and the central limit theorem.

 

-    Estimation of population mean and proportion.

 

-    Scater plot, Simple linear regression and Correlation: Pearson's correlation coefficient and Spearman's rank correlation coefficient.

 

Textbook:

Bluman, "Elementary Statistics a Step by Step Approach",  7th Edition (2009)

Subsidiary:

Larson & Farber, "Elementary Statistics: Picturing the World",  3rd Edition (2006)
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