BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE, PILANI

K K BIRLA GOA CAMPUS

FIRST SEMESTER 2023-2024 (Course Handout Part II)

In addition to part I (General Handout for all courses appended to the time table) this portion gives
further specific details regarding the course.

Course No. : MATH F432

Course Title : Applied Statistical Methods
Instructor-in-charge: Shilpa Gondhali.

(1) Course Description:

Applied Statistics is an exciting sub-area of Statistics. It has applications in almost all scientific
disciplines that deal with data and uncertainty. This course builds up fundamental concepts
of various key statistical methods necessary to analyze/interpret a variety of practical busi-
ness/engineering problems. This course emphasizes the role of statistics in one’s own field of
study by making sense of data, developing self-ability to apply appropriate statistical methods,
performing experimental designs, and above all, realizing the limitations/inherent assumptions
in a statistical test to avoid over-interpretation or misinterpretation. The thrust areas covered in
this course include probability distributions, statistical inference, analysis of variance (ANOVA),
regression and correlation, discriminant analysis, factor, cluster analysis, time series analysis,
forecasting, nonparametric methods, and statistical quality control. The theoretical learning
will complement various case studies and hands-on training in Minitab.

(2) Text Book:

T1] David R Anderson, Dennis J Sweeney, Thomas A Williams, Jeffrey D. Camm
and James J. Cochran: Statistics for Business and Economics,12th Edition, Cengage Learn-
ing, 2014.

(3) Reference Books:

R1] Sheldom M. Ross: Introductory Statistics, Academic Press, 2005
R2] Deepak Chawla and Neena Sondhi: Research Methodology, Vikas, 2012.
R3] Richard Johnson and Dean W Wichern: IApplied Multivariate Statistical Analysis,
Pearson, 2007.

(4) Course Plan:

Lec. Topics to be covered Reference
1-2 Revision of basic probability concepts, random variables, prob- T1: Chapter 4
ability distributions, and moments (Self Study). to Chapter 6
3-4 Introduction, Review of sampling, selecting a sample, Sam- T1: 7, 7.2, 7.3,
pling from a finite and infinite population, Point Estimation, 7.4, 7. 5, 7.7, 7.8
Sampling distribution of sample means and properties of point
estimators, Other sampling methods.
5-6 Interval estimation, Population mean when σ is known, Pop- T1: 8, 8.1, 8.2,
ulation mean σ is unknown, Determining the sample size, In- 8.3, 9, 9.1, 9.2,
troduction to hypothesis testing, Types of errors, Inferences 9.3, 9.4
about the single population mean.
7-8 Inferences about the difference between two means, population T1: 10, 10.1,
variances, and Interval estimation. 10.2, 10.3, 11,
11.1, 11.2
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9-11 Testing the equality of population proportions, Test of inde- T1: 12, 12.1,
pendence, Goodness of fit test, Introduction to experimental 12.2, 12.3, 13,
design, and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) (Completely ran- 13.1, 13.2, 13.3,
domized design, Multiple comparison procedures, Randomized 13.4
block design).
12-14 Simple linear regression model, Least squares method, Coef- T1: 14, 14.1,
ficient of determination, Model assumptions, Test for signifi- 14.2, 14.3, 14.4,
cance, Using the estimated regression equation for estimation 14.5, 14.6, 14.8,
and prediction, Residual analysis: Validating model assump- 14.9
tions, outliers, and influential observations.
15-17 Multiple regression model, Least squares method, Multiple co- T1: 15, 15.1,
efficients of determination, Model assumptions, Testing for sig- 15.2, 15 .3, 15.4,
nificance, Multicollinearity. The regression equation for esti- 15.5, 15.6, 15.8
mation and prediction, residual analysis, Discuss case studies.
18-20 The categorical independent variable and Logistic regression. T1: 15.7, 15.9
21-23 Hoteling T2 and Mahalanobis D2 discriminant analysis, Ob- R2: 17 and Lec-
jectives and its uses, Illustration of discriminant analysis, As- ture Notes
sessing classification accuracy.
24-27 Cluster analysis, Statistics associated with cluster analysis, an R2: 18 and Lec-
illustration of the technique, Key concepts in cluster analysis, ture Notes
Process of clustering, establishing cluster algorithms, Discuss
case studies.
28-31 Factor analysis and its uses, Conditions for factor analysis, R1: 7.1, 7.2, 7.3,
Illustration of factor analysis, Applications of factor analysis 7.4 and Lecture
in other multivariate techniques. Notes
32-35 Forecasting, Components of a time series, Smoothing meth- T1: 17.1 – 17.6,
ods, Trend projections, Trend and seasonal components, Re- Class Notes
gression analysis, Qualitative approaches.
36-37 Kruskal walls test, Mann Whitney Wilcoxon test, K-S two T1: 18.1-18.4,
sample test Class Notes
38-40 Introduction, Control charts for variables, Control charts at- T1: 19.1, 19.2,
tributes, Modified control charts. Class Notes
(5) Evaluation Scheme :
Component Duration (minutes) Date & Time & Venue Marks Remarks
Q1 Mid September (tentative) 10 Open Book
A1 Mid September (tentative) 5 Open Book
Midterm Refer to Handout I 30 Closed Book
Q2 Mid November (tentative) 10 Open Book
A2 Mid November (tentative) 5 Open Book
Compre Exam. Refer to Handout I 40 Closed Book
(6) Chamber consultation hour: To be announced in the class.

(7) Notice: Notices concerning this course, will be put up on Quanta.

(8) Make-up Policy: Make-up will be given only for genuine cases and prior permission
has to be obtained from the Instruction Division and I/C.

Instructor-in-charge
MATH F432