STAT 110

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 and mode.
-          Measures of dispersion: range, and standard deviation.
-          Relative Dispersion and Skewness.
-          Elementary probability: random experiment, sample space, event, and computation of probability. Rules of addition and multiplication, conditional
probability and independence.
-          Random variables, probability distributions, variance and expected value – Some probability distributions (Binomial, Poisson, and Normal).
-          Sampling and sampling distribution: Sampling distribution of Sample Mean (in case of large samples), central limit theorem and sampling distribution of proportion.
-          Estimation of population mean and proportion.
-          Tests of statistical hypotheses: testing of mean, differences between two means, proportion, differences between two proportions in large samples.
-          Simple linear regression and Correlation: Pearson's correlation coefficient and Spearman's rank correlation coefficient.

Textbook:
Bluman, "Elementary Statistics a Step by Step Approach", 6th Edition (2006(

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