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This document provides an overview of the course content for a 3 credit hour introductory statistics course. The course covers 11 units: (1) introduction to statistics concepts; (2) presentation of data through tables, graphs and diagrams; (3) measures of central tendency; (4) measures of dispersion; (5) probability distributions; (6) sampling and sampling distributions; (7) hypothesis testing; (8) hypothesis testing for single populations; (9) hypothesis testing for two or more populations; (10) hypothesis testing for independence of attributes; and (11) regression and correlation. The document lists 5 recommended textbooks for the course.

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Contents Statistics

This document provides an overview of the course content for a 3 credit hour introductory statistics course. The course covers 11 units: (1) introduction to statistics concepts; (2) presentation of data through tables, graphs and diagrams; (3) measures of central tendency; (4) measures of dispersion; (5) probability distributions; (6) sampling and sampling distributions; (7) hypothesis testing; (8) hypothesis testing for single populations; (9) hypothesis testing for two or more populations; (10) hypothesis testing for independence of attributes; and (11) regression and correlation. The document lists 5 recommended textbooks for the course.

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Annexure “E”

INTRODUCTION TO
STATISTICS Credit hrs: 3(3-
Unit 1. What is 0)
Statistics?
Definition of Statistics, Population, sample Descriptive and inferential Statistics,
Observations, Data, Discrete and continuous variables, Errors of measurement,
Significant digits, Rounding of a Number, Collection of primary and secondary data,
Sources, Editing of Data. Exercises.
Unit 2. Presentation of Data
Introduction, basic principles of classification and Tabulation, Constructing of a
frequency distribution, Relative and Cumulative frequency distribution, Diagrams,
Graphs and their Construction, Bar charts, Pie chart, Histogram, Frequency polygon and
Frequency curve, Cumulative Frequency Polygon or Ogive, Historigram, Ogive for
Discrete Variable. Types of frequency curves. Exercises.
Unit 3. Measures of Central Tendency
Introduction, Different types of Averages, Quantiles, The Mode, Empirical Relation
between Mean, Median and mode, Relative Merits and Demerits of various Averages.
properties of Good Average, Box and Whisker Plot, Stem and Leaf Display, definition of
outliers and their detection. Exercises.
Unit 4. Measures of Dispersion
Introduction, Absolute and relative measures, Range, The semi-Inter-quartile Range, The
Mean Deviation, The Variance and standard deviation, Change of origin and scale,
Interpretation of the standard Deviation, Coefficient of variation, Properties of variance
and standard Deviation, Standardized variables, Moments and Moments ratios. Exercises.
Unit 5. Probability and Probability Distributions.
Discrete and continuous distributions: Binomial, Poisson and Normal
Distribution. Exercises Unit 6. Sampling and Sampling Distributions
Introduction, sample design and sampling frame, bias, sampling and non sampling errors,
sampling with and without replacement, probability and non-probability sampling,
Sampling distributions for single mean and proportion, Difference of means and
proportions. Exercises.
Unit 7. Hypothesis Testing
Introduction, Statistical problem, null and alternative hypothesis, Type-I and Type-II
errors, level of significance, Test statistics, acceptance and rejection regions, general
procedure for testing of hypothesis. Exercises.
Unit 8. Testing of Hypothesis- Single Population
Introduction, Testing of hypothesis and confidence interval about the population mean
and proportion for small and large samples, Exercises
Unit 9. Testing of Hypotheses-Two or more Populations
Introduction, Testing of hypothesis and confidence intervals about the difference of
population means and proportions for small and large samples, Analysis of Variance and
ANOVA Table. Exercises
Unit 10. Testing of Hypothesis-Independence of Attributes
Introduction, Contingency Tables, Testing of hypothesis about the Independence of
attributes. Exercises.
Unit 11. Regression and Correlation
Introduction, cause and effect relationships, examples, simple linear regression,
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estimation of parameters and their interpretation. r and R . Correlation. Coefficient of
linear correlation, its estimation and interpretation. Multiple regression and interpretation
of its parameters. Examples
Recommended Books
rd
1 Walpole, R. E. 1982. “Introduction to Statistics”, 3 Ed., Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. New
York.
2 Muhammad, F. 2005. “Statistical Methods and Data Analysis”, Kitab Markaz, Bhawana Bazar
Faisalabad.
3 Chaudhry Sher Mohammad and Kamal, Shahid, Introduction to Statistics Theory 1& 2 Ed.
Lahore Ilmi Kitab Khana
4 Keller, Gerald and Warrack, Brain, Statistics for Management and Economics 5th ed. 2000

5 New Bold, Paul, Carlson, William L. and Thorne, Betty M. Statistics for Business and
Economics 5th Ed.

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