College: | Faculty of Science |
Department: | Mathematics |
Course Title: | General Statistics |
Course Code: | Stat 201 |
Credit Hours: | 4 |
Prerequisite: | |
Text Books: |
1. | Sheldon M. Ross: Introductory Statistics 3th ed. (2010) |
2. | David Freedman, Robert Pisani and Roger Purves Hardcover (2007)" Statistics" , W. W. Norton, 4th Edition |
3. | Dennis Wackerly, William Mendenhall, Richard L. Scheaffer Hardcover, (2007) Mathematical Statistics with Applications (7th Edition) Duxbury Press |
Course Description: |
Methods of collection and Presentation Of Statistical Data by different ways, calculate some Measures of Central Tendency, measures of dispersion, Correlation and Regression. The main Principles of Probability, random variables and some Statistical Distributions. |
Learning Objectives: |
Student knows the importance of Statistics in all Sciences. Student acquires knowledge by learning new theories, concepts and methods of collection and Presentation Of Statistical Data by different ways, calculate some Measures of Central Tendency, measures of dispersion, Correlation and Regression. Student studies The main Principles of Probability, random variables and some Statistical Distributions. Student becomes responsible for their own learning through solutions of assignments and time management |
Grading: |
No. | Assessment | Evaluation |
1. | 1st midterm exam | 25 % |
2. | 2nd midterm exam | 25% |
3. | Homework | 5 % |
4. | Quizzes | 5 % |
5. | Final exam | 40 % |
Total | 100 % |
Methods of Teaching: (Lectures, Laboratory, Individual exercises, In-class discussion, Selection of Readings,…) |
1. | Lectures |
2. | Tutorials |
3. | Homework |
4. | Quizzes |
Course Outline: |
Week | Lecture Topics |
1. | Collection and Presentation Of Statistical Data |
2. | Frequency distributions, Cumulative Frequency distributions |
3. | Measures of Central Tendency: Arithmetic mean, The Median and The Mode |
4. | Measures of Central Tendency: The Geometric Mean, Quartiles, Deciles and Percentiles |
5. | Measures of dispersion: The Range, The Mean Deviation,The Variance and the Standard Deviation |
6. | Measures of dispersion: The Coefficient of Variation, The Standard variable |
7. | Correlation and Regression |
8. | Principles of Probability: Random experiments, kind of Sample Space, Events and definitions of Probability |
9. | Disjoint events, Independent events and conditional Probabilities |
10. | The Total Probability law, Baye's theory |
11. | Discrete Random Variables |
12. | Continuous Random Variables |
13. | Properties of Random Variables |
14. | Some of discrete Probability distributions |
15. | Some of Continuous Probability distributions |