Syllabus
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Course Code: DSCS-118 Course Name: Statistical Method-I |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Introduction of Statistics: Origin, development, definition, scope, uses and limitations. Types of Data: Qualitative and quantitative data, nominal and ordinal data, time series data,. discrete and continuous data, frequency and non-frequency data.. Collection and Scrutiny of Data: Collection of primary and secondary data- its major sources including some government publications, scrutiny of data for internal consistency and detection of errors of recording, classification and tabulation of data. |
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| 2 | Presentation of Data: Frequency distribution and cumulative frequency distribution,
diagrammatic and graphical presentation of data, construction of bar, pie diagrams, histograms,
frequency polygon, frequency curve and ogives.. Measures of Central Tendency and Location: Arithmetic mean, median, mode, geometric mean, harmonic mean; partition values-quartiles, deciles, percentiles and their graphical location along with their properties, applications, merits and demerits. |
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| 3 | Measures of Dispersion: Concept of dispersion, characteristics for an ideal measure of
dispersion. Absolute and relative measures based on: range, inter quartile range, quartile
deviation, coefficient of quartile deviation, Mean deviation, coefficient of mean deviation,
variance, standard deviation (), coefficient of variation and properties of these measures, root
mean square deviation and their relationship, variance of the combined series.. Moments: Moments about mean and about any point and derivation of their relationships, effect of change of origin and scale on moments, Sheppard’s correction for moments (without derivation), Charlier’s checks; Pearson’s β and γ coefficients. |
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| 4 | Skewness and Kurtosis: Coefficients of Skewness and Kurtosis with their interpretations.. Theory of Attributes: Symbolic notations, dichotomy of data, class frequencies, order of class frequencies, consistency of data, independence and association of attributes, Yule’s coefficient of association and coefficient of colligation and their relationship. |
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