City University

Department of Textile Engineering & Technology

Semester: Fall 2006 Course Class Time : STA 222 (Statistics) : Monday & Wednesday (9:00PM 10:30PM)

Course Instructor: Sujit Saha Roy Office Hours: Day Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Time 11:00AM 1:30 PM & 3:00PM 5:00 PM 10:30 AM 1:30PM & 3:00 PM 4:30PM 11:00AM 1:30 PM & 3:00PM 5:00 PM 10:30 AM 1:30PM & 3:00 PM 4:30PM 12:00 PM 2:00 PM

Course Objective:
This course is designed to equip the students with statistical tools and concepts. The course will develop the capability of the students to the practical implementation of statistics in their industrial career.

Required Text:
1) Statistical Techniques in Business & Economics by Douglas A Lind, William G Marchal & Robert D Mason, McGraw-Hill. 2) Contemporary Marketing Research by Carl McDaniel, Jr. & Roger Gates, West Publishing Company. 1999. 3) Schaums Outline of theory & Problems of STATISTICS by Murray R. Spiegel & Larry J.Stephens.

Attendance:
Students are expected to attend all classes and to read material and prepare assigned homework prior to the class. If a student is not prepared to attend all classes, he/she should not enroll in this class.

Make-up of term examinations:

Make-up examinations for missed term examination may be given if there are valid reasons for not taking part in the examinations. However, students should keep in mind that make-up examinations would always be harder.

Grading Policy:
The final course grade will be based on: Midterm Examination Final Examination 30% 40%

Class Test, Attendance & assignment

30%

Course Description:
1. General concepts of statistics a) General concepts of statistics b) Introduction to statistics c) Data d) Variables 2. Summarization and presentation of data a) Construction of tables b) Frequency Distribution c) Graphical presentation of Data: Bar diagram Pie diagram Line diagram Histogram Frequency polygon Cumulative frequency polygon Scatter diagram 3. Measures of central tendency a) Arithmetic mean b) Geometric mean c) Harmonic mean d) Median e) Mode 4. Measures of dispersion a) Range b) Mean deviation c) Quartile deviation d) Standard deviation e) Coefficient of variation 5. Moment, Skewness and Kurtosis Their definition, Computation and Uses. 6. Probability a) Idea of probability b) Some basic theorem in probability c) Probability distribution Binomial Normal Hyper geometric 7. Correlation and regression

a) Relationship between variables b) Correlation analysis c) Regression analysis