STANDARD COMPETENCIES:

 

 1.   Describe the nature and implication of basic principles of statistics and how they play an important role in our daily lives

 2.   Organize and summarize data, and represent graphically the important information contained in a data set

 3.   Compute numerical quantities that measure the central tendency and dispersion of a set of data

 4.   Understand the basic properties of probability

 5.   Determine probabilities using postulates, rules of probability and various probability distribution tables

 6.   Distinguish between discrete and continuous variables

 7.   Compute the mean and standard deviation of a probability distribution

 8.   Test hypotheses by using the appropriate distribution and constructing confidence intervals about means, standard deviations, and proportions

 9.   Use methods for estimating some population parameters

 10. Understand and apply the basic concepts of statistical inference to the decision making process

 11. Fit a least-square line to a set of data and interpret the coefficient of correlation

 12. Use a statistical software package in performing statistical computations

 TOPICAL OUTLINE:

 

 I.      The nature of probability and statistics

 II.     Frequency distributions and graphs

 III.    Data description

 IV.     Counting techniques

 V.      Probability

 VI.     Probability distributions

 VII.    The normal distribution

 VIII.   Confidence intervals and sample size

 IX.     Hypothesis testing

 X       Testing the difference between means, variances, and proportions

 XI.     Correlation and regression

 XII.    Chi-square and analysis of Variance (ANOVA)