Statistics I Syllabus
This page contains Syllabus of Statistics I of CSIT.
| Title | Statistics I |
| Short Name | |
| Course code | STA164 |
| Nature of course | Theory and Practical |
| Second Semester | |
| Full marks | 60 + 20 + 20 |
| Pass marks | 24 + 8 + 8 |
| Credit Hrs | 3 |
| Elective/Compulsary | Compulsary |
Course Description
Course objectives:
To impart the knowledge of descriptive statistics, correlation, regression, sampling, theoretical as
well as the applied knowledge of probability and some probability distributions
Units and Unit Content
- 1. Introduction
- teaching hours: 4 hrs
Basic concept of statistics; Application of Statistics in the field of Computer Science &
Information technology; Scales of measurement; Variables; Types of Data; Notion of a statistical
population
- 2. Descriptive Statistics
- teaching hours: 6 hrs
Measures of central tendency; Measures of dispersion; Measures of skewness; Measures of
kurtosis; Moments; Steam and leaf display; five number summary; box plot
Problems and illustrative examples related to computer Science and IT
- 3. Introduction to Probability
- teaching hours: 8 hrs
Concepts of probability; Definitions of probability; Laws of probability; Bayes theorem; prior and
posterior probabilities
Problems and illustrative examples related to computer Science and IT
- 4. Sampling
- teaching hours: 3 hrs
Definitions of population; sample survey vs. census survey; sampling error and non sampling
error; Types of sampling
- 5. Random Variables and Mathematical Expectation
- teaching hours: 5 hrs
Concept of a random variable; Types of random variables; Probability distribution of a random
variable; Mathematical expectation of a random variable; Addition and multiplicative theorems
of expectation
Problems and illustrative examples related to computer Science and IT
- 6. Probability Distributions
- teaching hours: 12 hrs
Probability distribution function, Joint probability distribution of two random variables; Discrete
distributions: Bernoulli trial, Binomial and Poisson distributions; Continuous distribution: Normal
distributions; Standardization of normal distribution; Normal distribution as an approximation of
Binomial and Poisson distribution; Exponential, Gamma distribution
Problems and illustrative examples related to computer Science and IT
- 7. Correlation and Linear Regression
- teaching hours: 7 hrs
Bivariate data; Bivariate frequency distribution; Correlation between two variables; Karl
Pearson’s coefficient of correlation(r); Spearman’s rank correlation; Regression Analysis: Fitting
of lines of regression by the least squares method; coefficient of determination
Problems and illustrative examples related to computer Science and IT
Lab and Practical works
| S. No. | Title of the practical problems (Using any statistical software such as Microsoft Excel, SPSS, STATA etc. whichever convenient). | No. of | practical | problems | |||
1 | Computation of measures of central tendency (ungrouped and grouped data) Use of an appropriate measure and interpretation of results and | computation of partition Values | 1 | ||||
| 2 | Computation measures of dispersion (ungrouped and grouped data) and | computation of coefficient of variation. | 1 | ||||
| 3 | Measures of skewness and kurtosis using method of moments, Measures of Skewness using Box and whisker plot, normal probability plot | 2 | |||||
| 4 | Scatter diagram, correlation coefficient (ungrouped data) and interpretation. Compute manually and check with computer output. | 1 | |||||
| 5 | Fitting of lines of regression (Results to be verified with computer output) | 1 | |||||
| 6 | Fitting of lines of regression and computation of correlation coefficient, | Mean residual sum of squares, residual plots | 1 | ||||
| 7 | Conditional probability and Bayes theorem | 3 | |||||
| 8 | Obtaining descriptive statistics of probability distributions | 2 | |||||
| 9 | Fitting probability distributions in real data (Binomial, Poisson and Normal) | 3 | |||||
| Total number of practical problems | 15 |