BASIC STATISTICS

Course Description:

This is an introductory statistics course designed for students with limited statistics and mathematics background. It enables students understand basic statistical analysis.

Course Objectives:

By the end of this course, the student should be able to:

1. Organise, analyse, interpret, summarise the data in a useful and informative manner.

2. Calculate measures of central tendency and dispersion.

3. Calculate and interpret regression and correlation tests

4. Estimate the population mean.

Learning Outcomes

1. Use simple graphical techniques to perform preliminary analysis of data.

2. Use counting rules to solve permutation and combination problems associated with probability.

3. Interpret results of measures of central tendency and dispersion.

4. Apply and interpret binomial and normal distributions.

5. Test hypothesis on the mean of a normal population.