KShs 100
Description
Objectives
At the end of this lesson, the student should be able to understand
- The meaning of statistics
- Steps in a statistical enquiry
- Types of statistics
- The steps of a complete statistical study
- The functions of statistics
- The uses of statistics
- The classification of data
- Presentation of information using tables
- Differentiate between a Lorenz curve and Z chart
- Relative Frequency Distribution
- Cumulative Frequency Distribution
- Differentiate between the different methods of data presentation
- Present data systematically using different graphical methods
- Explain in detail the data presented.
- Calculate and interpret the arithmetic mean using different approaches of both grouped and ungrouped data
- Differentiate between different types of mean
- Calculate and interpret the median
- Find the median of the data using an appropriate method
- Use graphical method to locate the median of the data
- Differentiate between quartiles, percentiles and deciles
- Calculate and interpret quartiles, percentiles and deciles
- Differentiate range, inter quartile range, quartile deviation and mean deviation
- Calculate range, inter quartile range, quartile deviation and mean deviation
- Calculate variance and standard deviation
- State and illustrate the uses of standard deviation
- Differentiate between skewness, kurtosis and moments
- Differentiate between different concepts of probability
- State and explain the different types of approaches to probability
- Understand the purpose of studying probability
- State and explain the types of events
- Differentiate between unions and intersections
- Explain conditional probability
- State both the addition and multiplication rules of probability
- Solve mathematical problems using tree diagrams
- State Bayes’ theorem
- Differentiate between permutation and combination
- Define a random variable
- Distinguish between uniform, discreet and continuous probability
- State the different laws of expectation and variation
- Define what is meant by a continuous variable
- Define what is meant by a continuous probability distribution
- Differentiate between the normal approximation to the binomial and poisson distribution