Minor(Course Code: STAT 1021)

Descriprtive Statistics and Elementary Probability

Syllabus:

1. Statistics: Definition and scope, concepts of statistical populatrion and sample 

2. Data: Quantitative and Qualitative 

3. Scale of Measurement: Nominal, Ordinal, Interval  and Ratio. Frequency distribution.

4. Presentation; Textual, Tabular and Graphical, including Histogram and Ogives.

5. Measure of Central Tendency: Mean, Median and Mode

6. Measure of Dispersion: Range, Mean deviation, Standard deviation, Coefficient of Variation, Gini's Coefficient, Lorenz Curve. Moments, Skewness and Kurtosis, Quantiles and measures based on them. Box Plot, Outlier detection, Quantile-Quantile Plot.

7. Probability: Introduction, Random  experiments, Sample Space, Events and Algebra of Events. Definition of Probability : Classical, Statistical and Axiomatic.. Conditional Probability, Laws of Addition and Multiplication, Indipendent Events, Theorem  of Total Probability, Baye's Theorem and it's Applications..