Syllabus

Course Code: MPEd -203    Course Name: Applied Statistics in Physical Education and Sports

MODULE NO / UNIT COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE NOTES
1 Introduction to Statistics and Measures of Central Tendency
Meaning of Statistics. Need and importance of statistics in Physical Education, Meaning of Data, Methods of organizing Data through Frequency Distribution.
Meaning of the Measures of Central Tendency, Computation of Measures of Central
Tendency i.e. Mean, Median and Mode.
Merits and limitations of Mean, Median and Mode
2 Introduction of Variability
Meaning of Variability, Meaning of Measures of variability: Range, Quartile Deviation, Average Deviation and Standard Deviation.
Computation of Range, Quartile Deviation, Average Deviation and Standard Deviation. Meaning of term Percentile, Computation of Percentile & Quartiles.
Meaning of Percentile Rank, Computation of Percentile Rank.
3 Introduction to Normal Probability Curve and Correlation
Meaning of Normal Probability Curve, Properties of Normal Curve.
Meaning and types of Skewness and kurtosis, Sigma Scores, Z- Scores, Hull Scores Calculation of probability for various combinations of Heads and Tails.
Meaning and Types of Linear Correlation. Computation of Correlation Coefficient with Product Movement Method and Rank Difference Method.
4 Graphical representation of data and testing of Hypothesis
Meaning and advantage of Graphical Representation of Data, Principle of Graphical Representation of Data. Types of Bar Diagrams, Method of preparing Histogram, Frequency Polygon, Cumulative-Frequency Graph, Bar-Diagram and Pie Diagram.
Meaning of two – tailed and one tailed test of significance, computing significance of difference between two means with t – Test (independent samples), One way ANOVA Test.
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