George Fernandez

Professor of applied  Statistics

Director/ Center for Research Design and Analysis (CRDA) /ms 088

University of Nevada   Reno NV 89557

(775) 784-4206

 


 

 INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICAL METHODS


Office:

    Fleischman Agriculture, Room No 235 A&B, (784-4206)

Office hours:

    FA 235  A&B MW 12:00 to 12:50 PM

Text books:

    1) Weiss (1999) Introductory Statistics 5th ed. Addison Wesley (Required).

Objectives:

   a) To study the principles and procedures of Introductory Statistical methods.

    b) To learn introductory statistical analysis using statistical SOFTWARE "SAS" - Windows version.


Course Topics

week1: The nature of Statistics - Ch. 1.

week2: Organizing Data - Ch 2.

week2:  Descriptive measures - Ch 3.

week3: Probability Concepts - Ch 4.

week5: Discrete Random variables - Ch.5

week7: The Normal Distribution - Ch 6

week8: The sampling distribution of the mean - Ch 7

week9: Confidence intervals / Hypothesis testing Ch-8-9

week10: Inferences for two means - Ch 10

week 11: Inferences about population proportions Ch 12

week 12: Chi-square procedures - Ch 13

week13: Linear Regression methods - Ch 14-15

week15: ANOVA  - Ch 16


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