CGNB293

Statistics for COmputing

Semester 2, 2014/2015
Lecturers Info
Lecturers Name

Eze Manzura Mohd Mahidin

Room No.

BW-3-C47

Office Tel. No.

03-89212020 ext 2391

Email

ezemanzura@uniten.edu.my

Time Table

1A

Lab

Consultation Hours

1B
Mon
3 5 pm
Bw-1-L05

Lect
Tuesday
9 11 am
BW-4-L14

Wed
11am -1pm
BW-4-L14

3A

3B

Thurs
9am -11 am
BW-1-L05
Wed
Wed
9 11
24
BW-4-L14
BW-4-L14
(Mr.Alan)
(Mr.Alan)

4A

4B

Tues
11 am 1 pm
Bw-1-L05
Thurs
Mon
24 pm
9 11pm
BW-4-L14
BW-4-L14

Tuesday 3 pm 5 pm
Wednesday 3 pm 5 pm

Course Outcomes
At the end of the course, the student should be able to:
Describe data distribution using graphs and numerical measures.
Calculate probabilities of events in discrete and continuous sample spaces.
Compute the relative variability of random distributions.
Apply simple linear regression to construct empirical models for analyzing
scientific data.

Course Content and Weekly activity

Week
Week 1

Week 2

Topic
Introduction - Course Outline

Activities

Introduction to Statistics

Graphical Data Representation

Bar Chart

Quiz 1
Assignment 1:

 Pie chart and conversion of bar chart into line

chart
Line chart and line chart versus bar chart
Dot plots
Stem and leaves
Relative frequency histograms

a. Group
formation
b. Proposal

Week 3

Basic Statistical Measurements

Measurement of center median, mod, mean
Effects of outliers on mean versus on median
Measurement of variability range, variance,
standard deviation
Variance of sample versus variance of
population

Lab 1

Week 4

Practical Theorems using Measurement of

center and variability
Tchebysheffs Theorem
Empirical Rule
Importance of and concepts z-score in
detecting outliers

Lab
Quiz 2

Week 5

Assignment 2:
Survey form

Week 6

Principles of Probability
Terminology
Counting Rules concepts and applications: mn
rule, permutation, combinations

Lab

Week 7

Probability of Events Relation

Union
Compliment
Intersection
The concepts of Conditional Probability

MidTerm Exam
Lab

Week 8

Week 9
Week 10

Week 11

Probability of Random Variables

Mean of random events
Variance and standard deviation of random
events Shape of distribution

Random Distributions
Binomial Distribution
Random Distributions
Poisson Distribution

Lab
Assignment 3:
Data collection

MID SEMSETER BREAK

Lab

Lab

Week 12

Random Distributions
Normal Distribution

Lab
Quiz 3
Assignment 4:
a. Analyze
b. Report write up

Week 13

Testing Statistical Hypotheses

Hypothesis Tests and Significance Level
Tests Concerning the mean of a normal
population: known variance
Tests Concerning the mean of a normal
population unknown variance (t-test)

Lab

Week 15

Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), Regression

Analysis & Correlation
One way ANOVA
Two way ANOVA
Simple Linear Regression Model
Correlation Coefficient

LAb

Week 15

Revision

Text Book
Mendenhall, Beaver & Beaver, Introduction to Probability & Statistics, 13th Edition,
Thomson Brooks, 2012

Lecture Notes & Announcement

The Lecture Notes can be downloaded from the following website:
http://lms.uniten.edu.my/
Announcement & important notices will be done at our website or via Class Notice
(email).
Assessment
Lab Exercises
Midterm
Quizzes
Assignment
Final Examination
Total

10%
20%
15%
15%
40%
100%

Attendance
Attendance will be taken for every lecture. It is a Unitens rule, that you must attend more
than 80% of the lectures to be admitted to the Final Examination. Your lecturer reserves
the right to apply this rule.