Statistical Analysis with Software Application Course Outline

First Term
Week 2 I. Basic Terms, Concepts and Procedures in Statistics

A. The nature and brief history of statistics

B. Population, Sample and the Variables: Levels of measurement,
discrete and continuous, dependent independent

Week 3 II. Data Collection, Organization and Presentation of Data

A. Methods used in data collection
B. Sampling (sample size, sampling techniques, random/
probability sampling, non-random sampling)
C. Methods of data presentation (manual and using SPSS)
Frequency distribution, graph of frequency distribution
(frequency polygon, Histogram, ogive curves)
- How frequency distributions differ: central location, variation,
skewness, and kurtosis
Week 4-5 III . Measure of Central Tendency, Location and Variability
A. Measures of Central Tendency (mean, median and mode)
B. Measure of Location (quartile, decile and centile / percentile)
C. Measures of Variability (dispersion, relative variation)
Measure of skewness
The boxplot
Week 6 First Term Examination
Week 7 IV. Probability
A. Random Experiments, Samples spaces, events
B. Properties of probability
C. Concept of a random variable
D. Discrete and continuous probability distribution
E. The normal distribution
F. Other common distributions
V. Sampling Estimations
A. Basic concepts of estimation
B. Estimating the mean
C. Estimating the difference of two means (optional)
D. Estimating proportions
F. Estimating the difference of two proportions (optional)
G. Sample size determination

VI. Tests of Hypothesis

A. Basic concepts of statistical hypothesis testing
B. Testing a hypothesis on the population mean
C. Testing a hypothesis on the population proportion
D. Testing the difference of two proportions
E. Testing of independence

Week 12 Second Term Examination

Week 13-17 VII. Regression and Correlation
 A. The Correlation coefficient
B. Testing a hypothesis on the correlation coefficient
C. Simple linear regression
VIII. Analysis of Variance

Week 18 Final Examination