| General note |
CONTENTS;<br/><br/>1. Introduction<br/>What is statistics? , Functions of statistics, Statistical methods, etc<br/><br/>2. The fields of statistics.<br/><br/>Importance of statistics, Statistics in business, Statistics in Economics, etc<br/><br/>3.Statistical Inquiries and Sampling.<br/> <br/>Introduction, Population, Census Enumeration, Sampling, Law of statistical regularity, etc<br/><br/>4. Collection of data-preliminary Considerations <br/><br/>Statement of purpose, Scope of inquiry, Choice of statistical Units, etc<br/><br/>5. Collection of Data-techniques<br/><br/>Primary and secondary data, Primary methods of data collection, drafting questions and questionnaires etc.<br/><br/>6. Classification and tabulation<br/><br/>Introduction, Classification, organizing quantitative data, Selecting class intervals.<br/><br/>7. Diagrammatic representation<br/><br/>Introduction, Bar Diagrams, Two-way Dimensional Diagrams, Pictures etc. <br/><br/><br/>8. Graphic representation<br/><br/>Introduction, Line graphs for time series, Charting frequency Polygon, Smooth Frequency curve, etc.<br/><br/>9. Measures of central tendency.<br/><br/>Descriptive statistics, Measures of central tendency, The arithmetic mean, Arithmetic mean of grouped data, Properties of the mean etc.<br/><br/>10. Measures of Dispersion<br/><br/>Introduction, Measures of Dispersion, The range, Quartile Deviation, Mean deviation etc.<br/><br/><br/>11. Moments, Skewness and Kurtosis<br/><br/>Introduction, Moments, Moments about the mean, Skewness, Kurtosis, etc.<br/><br/>12. Analysis of time series<br/><br/>Time series problems, four components of time series, uses of the analysis of time series, Editing time series data etc.<br/><br/>13. Index Numbers<br/><br/>Introduction, Method of Combining the data, System of weighting aggregates of actual prices, weight average of price relatives, quantity index numbers etc.<br/><br/> <br/>14. Interpolation<br/><br/>Introduction, Graphic method of interpolation, parabolic curve method, newton’s method for equal intervals etc.<br/><br/>15. Relationship between variable-regression and correlation<br/><br/>Relationship between variables, Correlation and causation, Linear regression analysis, Simplified determination of regression analysis etc.<br/><br/>16. Probability<br/><br/>Introduction, Probability, A priori probability, Mathematics of probability, Addition rule of probability, Conditional probabilities etc.<br/><br/>17. Sampling Distributions<br/><br/>Nature of sampling distributions, Binomial distribution, mean and standard deviation of binomial distribution, normal distribution etc.<br/><br/>18. Estimation and testing of hypothesis<br/><br/>Estimation and confidence level, standard error of estimate, statistical inferences or testing of hypothesis etc.<br/><br/>19. Tests on large samples<br/><br/>Introduction, testing assumptions about population mean, one-tail and two-tail tests, testing significance of difference in means etc.<br/><br/>20. Testing on small samples and goodness of fit.<br/><br/>Small samples, the distribution, the z-test for correlation, the f-distribution and variance ratio test, analysis of variance etc.<br/><br/>21. Attribution and their association<br/><br/>Introduction, dichotomy and notation, Order of classes, A fundamental set, Method for determining class frequencies, Consistence of data etc.<br/><br/>22. Vital statistics<br/><br/>Introduction, Measures of mortality, Standard death rate, Measures of fertility, Life tables etc.<br/><br/>23. Statistical quality control<br/><br/>Introduction, Process control, Control chart, Product Control etc.<br/><br/>24. Statistics for business decisions<br/><br/>Introduction, the decision problem under uncertainty, expected profits, Expected value of perfect information etc.<br/><br/>25. Linear programming<br/><br/>Introduction, Linear programming problems, Graphical methods, the simplex method etc.<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/> |
