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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 203
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Statistics in Practice
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1
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2
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2
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Stat 110
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Objectives
The course provides clear and understandable explanations of statistics concepts through the use of continuing case studies and an emphasis on live improvement. The cases and examples show real applications of statistics relevant to today's science students. The course motivate students by showing persuasively how the use of statistical techniques in support of live decision-making helps to improve live processes. Subject areas covered include medicine and pharmaceutics; industry, finance and commerce; public services; the earth and environmental sciences, and so on. A variety of computer centered examples and exercises, and a robust, technology-based ancillary package are designed to help students master this subject.
Course Description
- Application of statistics in other fields.
- Estimation and statistical tests of two samples.
- Significance for proportions and difference between two proportions.
- Chi-square tests: goodness of fit tests, test for independence and homogeneity in contingency tables.
- Fisher’s test and McNemar Test.
- Measures of association: nominal and ordinal data.
- Communicating and Documenting results of Analyses.
- Using one of Statistical packages to solve the problems.
Main text books:
Ott, Larson, Mendenhall; Statistics a toll for the social sciences. 5th edition.
Subsidiary books:
Moore; The basic Practice of Statistics. 2nd edition.
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