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This document outlines a 4-year BS degree program in statistics for affiliated colleges. It includes 11 units covering fundamental statistical concepts such as data collection and presentation, measures of central tendency and dispersion, probability distributions, sampling, hypothesis testing for single and multiple populations, regression, and correlation. Recommended textbooks are also provided. The program aims to provide students with a strong foundation in both descriptive and inferential statistics.

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This document outlines a 4-year BS degree program in statistics for affiliated colleges. It includes 11 units covering fundamental statistical concepts such as data collection and presentation, measures of central tendency and dispersion, probability distributions, sampling, hypothesis testing for single and multiple populations, regression, and correlation. Recommended textbooks are also provided. The program aims to provide students with a strong foundation in both descriptive and inferential statistics.

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BS (4 Years) for Affiliated Colleges 

Code  Subject Title  Cr. Hrs  Semester 


III 
STAT‐211 
Elementary Statistics  3  IV 
STAT‐321  V 
Year  Discipline 
Business Administration, Mass Communication, Urdu 
2 
Social Work 
3  Education (Secondary) 
Unit 1. What is Statistics?
Definition of Statistics, Population, sample Descriptive and inferential Statistics,
Observations, Data, Discrete and continuous variables, Errors of measurement,
Significant digits, Rounding of a Number, Collection of primary and secondary data,
Sources, Editing of Data. Exercises.
Unit 2. Presentation of Data
Introduction, basic principles of classification and Tabulation, Constructing of a
frequency distribution, Relative and Cumulative frequency distribution, Diagrams,
Graphs and their Construction, Bar charts, Pie chart, Histogram, Frequency polygon
and Frequency curve, Cumulative Frequency Polygon or Ogive, Histogram, Ogive for
Discrete Variable. Types of frequency curves. Exercises.
Unit 3. Measures of Central Tendency
Introduction, Different types of Averages, Quantiles, The Mode, Empirical Relation
between Mean, Median and mode, Relative Merits and Demerits of various Averages.
Properties of Good Average, Box and Whisker Plot, Stem and Leaf Display,
definition of outliers and their detection. Exercises.
Unit 4. Measures of Dispersion
Introduction, Absolute and relative measures, Range, The semi-Inter-quartile Range,
The Mean Deviation, The Variance and standard deviation, Change of origin and
scale, Interpretation of the standard Deviation, Coefficient of variation, Properties of
variance and standard Deviation, Standardized variables, Moments and Moments
ratios. Exercises.
Unit 5. Probability and Probability Distributions.
Discrete and continuous distributions: Binomial, Poisson and Normal Distribution.
Exercises
Unit 6. Sampling and Sampling Distributions
Introduction, sample design and sampling frame, bias, sampling and non sampling
errors, sampling with and without replacement, probability and non-probability
sampling, Sampling distributions for single mean and proportion, Difference of means
and proportions. Exercises.
Unit 7. Hypothesis Testing
Introduction, Statistical problem, null and alternative hypothesis, Type-I and Type-II
errors, level of significance, Test statistics, acceptance and rejection regions, general
procedure for testing of hypothesis. Exercises.
Unit 8. Testing of Hypothesis- Single Population
Introduction, Testing of hypothesis and confidence interval about the population mean
and proportion for small and large samples, Exercises

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BS (4 Years) for Affiliated Colleges 

Unit 9. Testing of Hypotheses-Two or more Populations


Introduction, Testing of hypothesis and confidence intervals about the difference of
population means and proportions for small and large samples, Analysis of Variance
and ANOVA Table. Exercises
Unit 10. Testing of Hypothesis-Independence of Attributes
Introduction, Contingency Tables, Testing of hypothesis about the Independence of
attributes. Exercises.
Unit 11. Regression and Correlation
Introduction, cause and effect relationships, examples, simple linear regression,
estimation of parameters and their interpretation. r and R2. Correlation. Coefficient of
linear correlation, its estimation and interpretation. Multiple regression and
interpretation of its parameters. Examples

Recommended Books:
1. Walpole, R. E. 1982. “Introduction to Statistics”, 3rd Ed., Macmillan Publishing Co.,
Inc. New York. 
2. Muhammad, F. 2005. “Statistical Methods and Data Analysis”, Kitab Markaz,
Bhawana Bazar Faisalabad. 

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