COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES UNIVERSITI UTARA MALAYSIA

No. 1. 2. 3. 4. Information on Course Course Name : STATISTICS FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Course Code: Credit Value: 3 Pre-requisite (if any): NIL 5. Objective(s) of Course : After completing this course, students should be able to: 1. 2. Explain the concept and the use of statistics Determine appropriate statistical analysis method in decision making STQS1023

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Course Learning Outcomes: Upon completion of the course, students are able to 1. 2. 3. 4. describe statistics techniques discussed in this course differentiate between inferential and descriptive statistics identify appropriate statistical techniques to solve related problems apply appropriate statistical techniques to solve problems

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Synopsis: This course is intended to introduce students to the basic concepts of data collection, data analysis and statistical inference. Topics include an overview of observational and experimental study designs, graphical and numerical descriptive statistics, probability distributions for simple experiments and random variables, sampling distributions, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing for the mean and proportion in the one sample case. The emphasis is on developing statistical reasoning skills and concepts.

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Content outline of the course Topic Total Hour

1.0 THE NATURE OF STATISTICS 1.1 Statistics basics (descriptive & inferential 1.2 Sampling and sampling design 1.3 Experimental design 2.0 ORGANIZING DATA 2.1 Variables and data 2.2 Grouping data 2.3 Graphs and charts 2.4 Distribution shapes

3.0 DESCRIPTIVE MEASURES 3.1 Measures of centre and variation 3.2 Boxplots 3.3 Descriptive measures for populations 3.4 Use of samples

4.0 PROBABILITY 4.1 Probability basics 4.2 Events 4.3 Rules of probability 4.4 Contingency tables 4.5 Joint and marginal probabilities 4.6 Conditional probability 4.7 The multiplication rules 4.8 Independence 4.9 Bayess rule 4.10 Counting rule 5.0 RANDOM VARIABLES 5.1 Discrete random variables 5.2 Probability distribution 5.3 The mean and standard deviation of a discrete random variable, 5.4 Binomial and Poisson distribution 6.0 NORMAL DISTRIBUTION 6.1 Normally distributed variables 6.2 Areas under standard normal curve 6.3 Normal probability plot 6.4 Normal approximation to Binomial distribution 7.0 SAMPLING DISTRIBUTION OF THE SAMPLE MEAN 7.1 Sampling error 7.2 Sampling distribution 7.3 Mean and standard deviation of the sample mean 7.4 Central Limit Theorem. 8.0 CONFIDENCE INTERVALS AND ESTIMATION 2

8.1 Estimating a population mean 8.2 Confidence intervals for the population mean 8.3 Margin of error 9.0 HYPOTHESIS TESTING 9.1 Nature of hypothesis testing 9.2 Terms, errors and hypotheses 9.3 Hypothesis test for one population 9.4 Type II error probabilities 9.5 p-values 10.0 BIVARIATE DATA ANALYSIS 10.1 Linear equations with one independent variable 10.2 Regression equation 10.3 Coefficient of determination 10.4 Linear correlation

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