University of Central Punjab

Faculty of Commerce
Course Outline Business Statistics Spring 2008 Course Instructor: Bilal Sarwar

Introduction y y y y y y y y y What Is Statistics? Types of Statistics. Case Study - 1 -Weeks in Front of the TV. Case Study - 2 - Do You Feel Pressured to Come to Work Despite Being Sick? Population versus Sample. Basic Terms. Types of Variables. Cross-Section versus Time-Series Data. Sources of Data.

Organizing and Graphing Data y y y y y y y Raw Data. Organizing and Graphing Qualitative Data. Organizing and Graphing Quantitative Data. Shapes of Histograms. Cumulative Frequency Distributions. Stem-and-Leaf Displays. DOTPLOTS.

Numerical Descriptive Measures y y y y y y Measures of Central Tendency for Ungrouped Data. Measures of Dispersion for Ungrouped Data. Mean, Variance, and Standard Deviation for Grouped Data. Use of Standard Deviation. Measures of Position. Box-and-Whisker Plot.

Probability y y y y y y y y y Experiment, Outcomes, and Sample Space. Calculating Probability. Counting Rule. Marginal and Conditional Probabilities. Mutually Exclusive Events. Independent versus Dependent Events. Complementary Events. Intersection of Events and the Multiplication Rule. Union of Events and the Addition Rule.

Discrete Random Variables and Their Probability Distributions y y y y y y y y y y Random Variables. Probability Distribution of a Discrete Random Variable. Mean of a Discrete Random Variable. Standard Deviation of a Discrete Random Variable. Case Study 3 - Aces High Instant Lottery Game Factorials, Combinations, and Permutations. Case Study 4 - Playing Lotto. The Binomial Probability Distribution. The Hypergeometric Probability Distribution. The Poisson Probability Distribution.

Continuous Random Variables and the Normal Distribution y y y Continuous Probability Distribution. The Normal Distribution. The Standard Normal Distribution.

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Standardizing a Normal Distribution. Applications of the Normal Distribution. Determining the z and x Values When an Area Under the Normal Distribution Curve Is Known. The Normal Approximation to the Binomial Distribution.

Sampling Distributions y y y y y y y y Population and Sampling Distributions. Sampling and Nonsampling Errors. Mean and Standard Deviation of. Shape of the Sampling Distribution of. Applications of the Sampling Distribution of. Population and Sample Proportions. Mean, Standard Deviation, and Shape of the Sampling Distribution of. Applications of the Sampling Distribution of.

Estimation of the Mean and Proportion y y y y y Estimation: An Introduction. Point and Interval Estimates. Estimation of a Population Mean: _ Known. Estimation of a Population Mean: _ Not Known. Estimation of a Population Proportion: Large Samples.

Hypothesis Tests About the Mean and Proportion y y y y Hypothesis Tests: An Introduction. Hypothesis Tests About _: _ Known. Hypothesis Tests About _: _ Not Known. Hypothesis Tests About a Population Proportion: Large Samples.

Estimation and Hypothesis Testing: Two Populations y y y Inferences About the Difference Between Two Population Means for Independent Samples: _1 and _2 Known. Inferences About the Difference Between Two Population Means for Independent

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Samples: _1 and _2 Unknown but Equal. Case Study 101 Greater Hunger for News. Inferences About the Difference Between Two Population Means for Independent Samples: _1 and _2 Unknown and Unequal. Inferences About the Difference Between Two Population Means for Paired Samples. Inferences About the Difference Between Two Population Proportions for Large and Independent Samples.

Chi-Square Tests y y y y y The Chi-Square Distribution. A Goodness-of-Fit Test. Contingency Tables. A Test of Independence or Homogeneity. Inferences About the Population Variance.

Analysis of Variance y y The F Distribution. One-Way Analysis of Variance.

Simple Linear Regression. y y y y y y y y y y Simple Linear Regression Model. Simple Linear Regression Analysis. Case Study 5 - Regression of Heights and Weights of NBA Players. Standard Deviation of Random Errors. Coefficient of Determination. Inferences About B. Linear Correlation. Regression Analysis: A Complete Example. Using the Regression Model. Cautions in Using Regression.

Recommended book:
Introductory Statistics, 6th Edition Prem S. Mann (Eastern Connecticut State Univ.)