Syllabus Content

ECO 541
1) Introduction
-Definition
- Types of Statistics-Types of Variables
-Levels of Measurement
-Sources of Data
-Types of Survey/Sampling Method

2) Describing Data : Frequency Distribution and Graphic Presentation

- Organizing and Graphing Quantitative Data
- Organizing and Graphing Qualitative Data
-Exploratory Data Analysis
-Misleading Graphs

3) Describing Data : Numerical Measures

-Measures of Central Tendency
-Measures of Dispersion
-Measures of Position
-Measures of Shape

4) Probability Distribution
-Basic Probability Concepts
-Discrete Probability Distributions
-Continuous Probability Distributions
-Normal Distribution
-Standard Normal Distribution
-Tabulated Areas of the Normal Probability Distribution

5) Sampling and Sampling Distributions

-Sampling and Statistics.
-Sampling Distribution.
-The Central Limit Theorem.
-Sampling Distribution of the Sample Mean
-Sampling Distribution of the Sample Proportion

6) Estimation and Confidence Interval

-Point Estimates and Confidence Interval
-Point and Interval Estimation of a Population Mean.
-Point and Interval Estimation of a Population Proportion.

7) Estimation and Confidence Interval

-Interval Estimation of Difference Between Two Population Means.
-Interval Estimation of Difference Between Two Population Proportions.
8) Hypothesis Testing for one population
-Definition and Uses of Hypothesis Testing.
-Types of Errors.
-Five Steps Procedure for Testing a Hypothesis.
-One-Tailed and Two-Tailed Test of Significance.
-Hypothesis Tests about a Population Mean

9) Hypothesis Testing for one population

-Hypothesis Tests about a Population Proportion

10) Hypothesis Testing for two population

-Hypothesis Tests about the Difference Between Two Population Means

11) Hypothesis Testing for two population

-Hypothesis Tests about the Difference Between Two Population Proportions

12) Hypothesis Tests Using the Chi-Square Distribution

-Goodness-of-Fit Test

13) Hypothesis Tests Using the Chi-Square Distribution

-Independence and Homogeneity Test

14) Analysis of Variance

-ANOVA ? The General Ideas
-Assumptions Underlying ANOVA Test
-Analysis of Variance Procedure
? Inferences about Treatment Means