{"id":70,"date":"2013-11-12T10:20:49","date_gmt":"2013-11-12T07:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sjut.org\/math\/?page_id=70"},"modified":"2013-12-18T09:43:42","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T06:43:42","slug":"mat201","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.sjut.org\/math\/index.php\/courselist\/mat201\/","title":{"rendered":"MAT201 Probability and Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p lang=\"en-GB\" align=\"LEFT\">This course equips students with basic concepts of elementary probability and statistics and their application. The primary focus is probability and its relationship with statistics. The follow-in course MAT212 Mathematical Statistics focuses entirely upon statistics.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\" align=\"LEFT\"><strong>Contents:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Statistics: <\/b>Descriptive and inferential statistics, data representation and graphing, measures of central tendency and variability, univariate and bivariate data<\/li>\n<li><b>Probability: <\/b>Definition, laws of probability, discrete and continuous probability, conditional probability, independent events, mutually exclusive events<\/li>\n<li><b>Probability Distributions:<\/b> Distributions and densities, Binomial distribution, Poisson distribution, Normal distribution, Law of Large Numbers and Central Limit Theorem, expected value, variance, generating functions, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dartmouth.edu\/~chance\/teaching_aids\/books_articles\/probability_book\/Chapter11.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Markov Chains<\/a> and random walks<\/li>\n<li><b>Sampling: <\/b>Definition, Sampling distribution of the mean and proportions, confidence intervals, Hypothesis testing, t-distribution<\/li>\n<li><b>Regression and Correlation: <\/b>Meaning and use of regression and correlation, linear regression, correlation coefficient<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\" align=\"LEFT\"><b>Delivery: <\/b>30 lectures, 15<b> <\/b>tutorials<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\" align=\"LEFT\"><b>Assessment: <\/b>Course Work: 50% Final Exam: 50%.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Textbook:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\" align=\"LEFT\">Grinstead, Charles M. and J. Laurie Snell, <i>Introduction to Probability <\/i>(2<sup>nd<\/sup> Ed.), American Mathematical Society, The CHANCE Project, 2006. (Electronic version available at <a title=\"Grinstead and Snell Probability\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aimath.org\/textbooks\/grinstead-snell.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.aimath.org\/textbooks\/grinstead-snell.html<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>References:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\" align=\"LEFT\">Meery, Brenda, <i>Basic Probability and Statistics- A Short Course<\/i>, CK-12 Foundation, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ck12.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.ck12.org<\/a>, 2011.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Web Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Probability &amp; Statistics\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sjut.org\/math\/index.php\/subjects\/probability-statistics\/\">Probability and Statistics topic page on this site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\" align=\"LEFT\">Lane, David M. et al, <i>Introduction to Statistics<\/i> (Online Edition), Rice University and University of Houston, <a title=\"Lane online statistics book\" href=\"http:\/\/onlinestatbook.com\/2\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/onlinestatbook.com\/2\/index.html<\/a>, 2013.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\" align=\"LEFT\">Lane, David M., <i>HyperStat Online Statistics Textbook<\/i>, <a title=\"Lane online statistics resources\" href=\"http:\/\/davidmlane.com\/hyperstat\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/davidmlane.com\/hyperstat\/<\/a>, 1993-2013.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\" align=\"LEFT\">StatSoft, Inc., <i>Electronic Statistics Textbook<\/i>, Tulsa, OK: StatSoft, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statsoft.com\/textbook\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.statsoft.com\/textbook\/<\/a>, 2013.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-GB\" align=\"LEFT\"><i>Online Statistics Education: An Interactive Multimedia Course of Study<\/i> developed by Rice University, University of Houston Clear Lake, and Tufts University, <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinestatbook.com\/2\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/onlinestatbook.com\/2\/index.html<\/a>, 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This course equips students with basic concepts of elementary probability and statistics and their application. 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