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COURSE INFORMATION FOR CURRENT SEMESTER/TERM

References/Teaching Materials/
Week Lecture/Tutorial/Assignment Topic
Equipment
1 Reference books, course notes,
Revision of probability and descriptive
tutorials
2
Sampling and sampling distributions, the standard error of the mean Reference books, course notes,
and Central Limit Theorem tutorials

3 Reference books, course notes,
Point estimation and interval estimation.
tutorials
4 Reference books, course notes,
Testing hypotheses, Type I and II Errors, p-value
tutorials
5 Reference books, course notes,
Tests concerning means and proportions – single sample.
tutorials
6 Reference books, course notes,
Tests concerning means and proportions – two samples.
tutorials
7 Reference books, course notes,
Contingency Tables and Goodness of Fit.
tutorials
8 Correlation analysis, the coefficient of correlation, the coefficient of Reference books, course notes,
determination and testing the significance of the correlation coeffi-
cient. Regression analysis and standard error of estimate. tutorials
9 Assumptions underlying linear regression, confidence intervals and Reference books, course notes,
prediction intervals.
tutorials
10 The relationships among the coefficient of correlation, coefficient of Reference books, course notes,
determination and the standard error of estimate.
tutorials
11 Reference books, course notes,
Component of a time series.
tutorials
12 Linear and nonlinear trends, least squares method and the moving Reference books, course notes,
average method.
tutorials
13 Reference books, course notes,
Seasonal variation and determining a seasonal index
tutorials
14 Reference books, course notes,
Deseasonalizing data and forecasting
tutorials

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