Reference Books: Freund, John E., Mathematical Statistics with Applications (Seventh Ed.), Prentice Hall (RM80.00). Dennis D. Wackerly, William Mendenhall III dan Richard L. Scheaffer, Mathematical Statistics (Seventh Ed.), Duxbury. Hogg, Robert V., and Tannis, Elliot, E., 2006, Probability and Statistical Inference (7 th Ed), Prentice Hall. Murdoch, J ohn, and J ohn Anthony Barnes, 1998, Statistical Tables for Students of Science, Engineering, Psychology, Business, Management, Finance. Macmillan (RM10.00 ~RM15.00).
Course objectives: Upon the completion of this course, the students should be able to: 1. recognize different types of charts and graphs and how to construct them. 3. recognize several distributions based on the distributions properties. 4. differentiate between univariate distribution and bivariate distribution. 5. derive a new distribution based on the information of other specific distributions.
Data Exploration: What is statistics? Types of data (quantitative and qualitative) Measurement scale (nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio)
Organization and summarization of data (a) Visual summary-Graphical displays of data (b) Numerical summary- i) Measures of Central Tendency, -3 types of averages ( mean, mode, median) -3 types of means (arithmetic, harmonic , Geometric) ii) Measures of Dispersion - variance, range, - skewness, kurtosis
Relationship between types of averages and types of data. e.g Mode=(quantitative and qualitative)
Mean and median (quantitave)
Lab 1 : Introduction to SPSS; Descriptive Statistics and Graphs
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Probability: Explain experiment, outcomes and sample space. Counting the events: permutation and combination Probability: relative frequency (empirical, based on experiments and theoretical (based on theory), degree of believe-(subjective, expert opinions) The probability of an event, Independence of events: Mutually exclusive events : Laws of Probability Conditional Probability Bayes Theorem
Differentiate between permutation and combination
Chapter 2 Assignment 1
Lab 2 : Relationships between Variables
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Probability distributions and probability Densities
Discrete random variables and probability distribution Continuous random variables and probability density function Cumulative distribution function J oint probability distribution, J oint probability density function J oint cumulative distribution function Marginal distribution, marginal density Conditional distribution, conditional density
Moments Expected value of a random variable Moment-Generating Functions Covariance of two random variables Linear functions of random variables Conditional Expectations Chapter 4 Assignment 2
Uniform distribution Bernoulli distribution Binomial distribution Poisson distribution Geometric distribution Negative Binomial distribution Hypergeometric distribution Multinomial Distribution
Chapter 5 Assignment 3 Wk 11 Wk 12 28/4/2014- 11/5/2014 Continuous Probability Density Function: Uniform distribution Normal distribution Exponential distribution Gamma distribution Chi-Square distribution Beta distribution
Relates Poisson distribution to Exponential (inter-arrival time)
Chapter 6 Assignment 4
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Lab 3 : Probability Calculations using SPSS Wk 14 Wk 15 19/5/2014- 30/5/2014 Functions of Random Variables: Method of Distribution Functions Method of Moment-Generating Functions Method of Transformations
Chapter 7 Assignment 5 31/5/2014- 8/6/2014 REVISION WEEK From 9/6/2014 FINAL EXAMINATION WEEKS