Course Name: Probability and Statistics

 

Course Code:

 

Course Duration: 17 Study weeks

 

Credit Hrs: 3

 

Course Team: Masood Amjad Khan, Inamul Haq, Hina Muzaffar

 

Course Description:

 Introduction of statistical experimentation and research methods with applications in natural and social sciences. This course introduces the major concepts and tools for collecting, analyzing, and drawing conclusions from data. The four broad conceptual themes are: exploring data, planning a study, anticipating patterns. Systematic coverage of the more widely used statistical methods, such as probability and probability distributions, simple regression and correlation. Students are expected to make a presentation in an applied field and complete a data-based project as part of the course requirement

 

 

Pre-Requisites: Elementary Mathematics.

 

Course Goal:

· Make students to understand the importance of Statistics

· Teach  students how the data can be described

· Focus on the applications of descriptive Statistics on real life data

· Using the Statistical Software for descriptive Statistics

· Develop the interest in random events and the distributions of these events.

Applications of regression and correlation on real life data

 

Course outline and Schedule:

GC University Lahore

 

Computer Science Department

Assessment Strategies:

 

Mid term        30%

Final Term     40%

Assignment    10%

Project            20%

 

Recommended Course Reader:

 

Introduction to Statistics, Walpole, 1982 Prentice Hall.

Statistical Data Analysis, G. Cowan G, 1998, Clarendon, Oxford

Advances in Statistical Analysis and Statistical Computing III Mariano R (Ed.), (1993), JAI Press, Greenwich, Conn.

Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics, L.A Douglas, M.G.William, W.A.Samuel,13^th Ed, Tata McGraw-Hill.