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Course No.
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Course Title
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Theory
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Practice
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Credit
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Prerequisite(s)
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Stat 302
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Statistical Methods
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2
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2
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3
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Stat 211
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Objectives
To make the student aware of the statistical methods which are used in estimation and testing of significance.
Course Description:
- Calculation of moments and coefficients of skewness and kurtosis.
- Revision of: Normal, x2, t and F distributions and their relations.
- Sampling distribution from normal population, sampling distribution of means, differences between two means, variance and ratio of two variances (and their uses in estimation and testing of significance).
- Central limit theorem and law of large numbers, estimation and test of significance for proportions and difference between two proportions.
- Analysis of Variance.
- Tukey, Scheffe, Bonferroni Multiple comparison Procedure
- ANOVA diagnostics and Remedial Measures.
- Non Parametric Alternatives
- Using Minitab packages.
Main text books:
Walpole, Introduction to Statistics, Collier McMillan, (1992).
Subsidiary books:
Mendenhall, W. Warcherly D.D. and R.L. Scheaffer, Mathmatical Statistics with Applications, PWS-kent 1989.
Neter; Applied Linear Statistical Models, 5th Edition
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