The Jordan University
Mathematics Department
Instructor. Prof. Ahmad Zghoul
Course Syllabus of Principles of Statistics (0301131)
Textbook: Raqab, M. Z., Awad, A. M., and Azzam, M.M (2010), Principles of Statistics , 3 rd edition,
Academic For Publishing & Distributing Co.
References:
1. Introduction to Probability and Statistics, 11th edition, W. Mendenhall, R. Beaver
and B. Beaver, 2003, Brooks/Cole
2. Introduction to Probability and Statistics, Principles and Methods, 3rd Edition, R.
A. Johnson and G. K. Bhattacharyya, 1996, Wiley, New York.
Lecture
Ch1
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Ch2
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Ch3
Topics of each 50 m. lecture
Descriptive Statistics:
Frequency table for discrete data, stem-and-leaf
Frequency table for continuous data, relative and cumulative frequency
Graphical presentation of discrete data: dot plot, line diagram, bar chart, pie chart
Graphical presentation of continuous data: histogram, frequency polygon, cumulative
frequency curve
Measures of location of raw data: arithmetic mean, median, mode, percentiles
Measures of location of grouped data: arithmetic mean, median, mode, percentiles, quartiles
Measures of variation for raw data: range, interquartile range, standard deviation, mean
deviation
Measures of variation for grouped data: standard deviation, mean absolute deviation,
interquartile range, Box-Whisker plot.
Z-score, coefficient of variation, skewness, kurtosis, Chebyshev inequality, empirical rule.
Updating mean and variance due to combining two data collections, linear transformation of
data, dropping, adding or correcting data points
Discussion 1
Elements of Probability:
Random experiment, sample space, event, sampling with and without replacement, counting
number of elements in sample space and of events using counting principle, combination and
permutation.
Probability concept and its rules
Conditional probability , independent events and Bayes rule
Univariate discrete random variable, pdf, cdf, expectation, mean , and variance
Bivariate discrete random variables, joint, marginal and conditional pdfs,
Expectation, mean , variance, covariance, and correlation, independence of bivariate random
vector.
Univariate continuous random variable, pdf, cdf, expectation, mean, variance.
Discussion 2
Discrete probability distributions
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Ch4
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Ch5
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Ch6
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Binomial distribution: Bernoulli random experiment, pdf, binomial table, mean and variance
Poisson distribution: experiments leading to the distribution, pdf, mean, variance, Poisson
table, Poisson approximation to binomial
Normal Probability Distribution
Standard normal, pdf, tables to calculate probabilities and percentiles
General normal and converting to Z : N(0,1), using tables
Normal approximation to Binomial and Poisson distributions, CLT
Sampling Distributions
Sampling distribution of sample mean and of difference between two sample means (normal
or T), degrees of freedom, using t-table
Sampling distribution of proportion and difference between two proportions (normal)
Sampling distribution of sample variance (Chi-square), and of ratio of two variances (Fdistribution) using chi-square and F- tables
Discussion 3
Concepts of Statistical Inference
Point estimates for population mean, proportion, variance, Confidence interval for population
mean, sample size determination
Testing terminology: null and alternative hypotheses, simple, one-sided and two-sided
composite hypotheses, test statistic, test rule, level of significance, p-vale, type-I and type-II
errors and their probabilities
 ,  , & p value
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Calculations of
Ch7
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Ch8
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Inference about one population parameters
Tests about population mean ( small and large samples, known and unknown variances)
Testing and CI for proportion (large sample), sample size determination
Testing and CI for variance, relation between testing and CI’s
Discussion 4
Inference about two populations parameters
Tests about difference of two independent populations means ( small and large samples,
known and unknown variances)
CI for difference of two independent populations means ( small and large samples, known and
unknown variances).
Tests and C.I. for difference of two dependent populations (paired) means
Tests and C.I. for difference of two independent proportions (large samples)
Tests and C.I. for ratio of two independent variances
Discussion 5
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Review before Mid Term
Mid Term
Solution of Mid Term
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Review before 2nd Exam
2nd Exam
Solution of 2nd Exam
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