PRELIMINARY BACKGROUND IN EXCEL is required for this course: Students can learn basics of EXCEL required for this course from the following webpage: EXCEL LESSONS.
More advanced course: Applied Econometrics, See also, DHSY website for more detailed explanations of Encompassing and the Hendry Methodology.
Course offered in Management Department at Arid Agricultural University started at Feb 22, 2016. Details on: ARID Intro Stats Home Page.
See Also: Bayesian Econometrics
For a description of special features of the course, and an outline, see DESCRIPTION.
There are quizzes (often TWO quizzes) associated with each lecture -- one is a comprehension quiz which tests understanding of the lecture, second is a computational quiz, which asks student to do spreadsheet calculations of concepts developed in the lecture. These quizzes are available with each lecture.
Lecture 1: Islamic Approaches to Knowledge = INTRODUCTORY MATERIAL: { First Lecture provides motivation for nature & structure of this radically different approach to statistics}
UNIT 1: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS
Introduction to Statistics: An Islamic Approach
Part 1: Descriptive Statistics
Lecture 2: COMPARISONS Part I: Number Facts and Fictions
Lecture 3: COMPARISONS: Part II: Sorting, Ranking and: Percentiles,
Lecture 4: COMPARISONS: Part III: Index Numbers
Lecture 5: Arbitrary Rankings
Lecture 6: REPRESENTING & Bench-Marking (Mean, Median and Mode)
Lecture 7: Measures of Spread, and Outliers.
Lecture 8: Boxplots.
Lecture 9: Histograms
Lecture 10: Densities
Lecture 11: Bivariate Relationships
UNIT TWO: Fundamental of Probability: UNIVARIATE CASE
These lectures are now being replaced by a NEWLY DESIGNED part II for this course:
Introduction to Statistics: An Islamic Approach
Part 2: Probability and Statistics
Lecture 1: Random Samples.
Lecture 2: Bernoulli Sequences.
Lecture 3: Discrete Random Variables.
Lecture 4: Continuous Random Variables.
Lecture 5: Expectations, Moments & MGF.
Lecture 6: Central Limit Theorem.
CONCLUDING LECTURE: Explains why current western methodology is seriously defective:
Lecture XX: Deification of Science
NOTE FOR FUTURE REFERENCE:
MEDIATION, as a topic in path diagrams & causality, should be introduced.