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Seminar1 Part1 Student Copy SUSS
Seminar1 Part1 Student Copy SUSS
Seminar 1 - Unit 1
- Descriptive Statistics
- Discrete Probability
Distributions
Topics
Unit 1
• 1.1 Describing Data: Graphic Presentation
• 1.2 Describing Data: Numerical Measures
• 2.1 Basic Probability Concepts
• 2.2 Discrete Probability Distributions
• 2.3 Continuous Probability Distributions
• 3.1 Sampling Methods
• 3.2 Central Limit Theorem
1
Review: Describing Data
• Statistics
– Descriptive statistics
– Inferential statistics
• Variables
– Qualitative variable
– Quantitative variable
• Discrete
• Continuous
• Describing data
– Graphic presentation: bar chart, pie chart, histogram (frequency distribution), scatter
plots (relationship between two variables)
– Numerical measures
• Location: mean, mode, median, skewness
• Dispersion: range, variance, standard deviation
2
Activity 1.2 - Basic Symbols
2 S2
S
N n
You may refer to “Excel Self Practice Prior Seminar 1” Practices 1.4 & 1.5.
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Prices of Vehicles
40
No. of Vehicles
30
20
10
0
15000 20000 25000 30000 35000 40000 More
Prices
Prices
Mean 23218.16
Median 22831
Standard Deviation 4354.438
Count 80
Break
4
Review: Probability and Probability Distributions
• Concepts:
– Probability, joint probability, conditional probability
– Experiment, outcome, random variable, probability distribution
• Discrete probability distributions
– Uniform
– Binominal
– Poisson
• Recall the formulas to calculate the probability, mean, variance and
standard deviation given a discrete probability distribution
b) If they had lunch together today, what is the probability that they had lunch
in the Chinese restaurant?
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Activity 1.5 – Discrete Probability Distribution
For the following discrete probability distribution, find the mean (expected
value), variance and standard deviation:
x P(x)
0 0.2
1 0.35
2 0.45
You may refer to the Formula Sheet (Equations [1-3], [1-9] & [1-10]).
Thank You