MATH 153 — Statistical Methods
BSc BSc Human Biology (pre-clinical component of Medicine pathway) · Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Introduction: Nature and Uses of Statistics; Some Basic Concepts of Statistics. Data Collection: Types of Sources of Data, Data Collection Methods and Questionnaire Design. Descriptive Analysis of Data: Organisation and Presentation of Data; Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion, Quartiles, Percentiles, Skewness and Kurtosis. Elementary Probability Theory: Random Experiments, Definitions of Terms and Measure of Probability. Some Basic Laws of Probability involving Compound Events. Computation of Probabilities involving Simple Events, Application of Counting Techniques and to Decision Problems. Random Variables and Probability Distributions: Concepts of Random Variables; Definition and Properties of Probability Distribution, Expectation, Median and Variance of Random Variables; Application to Decision Problems.
- Credits
- 2
- Level
- Year One (Pre-clinical Year 1)
- Semester
- Semester One
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