- Meaning and scope of statistics
- Statistical methods and their purposes
- Data:
- Primary and secondary data
- Data frequency
- Rounding of data
- Population and sample (including inductive and descriptive statistics)
- Variables: Discrete and continuous
- Functions
- Rectangular coordinates
- Graphs
- Frequency distributions:
- Arrays
- Frequency distributions
- Class intervals and limits
- Class size and width
- General rules for forming frequency distributions
- Histograms and frequency polygons
- Relative frequency distributions
- Cumulative frequency distributions
- Ogives and frequency curves
- Measures of central tendency:
- Unweighted and weighted arithmetic mean and their properties
- Arithmetic mean for grouped data
- Median and mode
- Empirical relations between mean, median, and mode
- Geometric mean, harmonic mean, and their relationship
- Root mean square
- Quartiles, inter-quartiles, deciles, and percentiles
- Measures of dispersion:
- The range
- Variation
- Mean deviation
- Semi-interquartile range
- Variance
- Shephard’s correction for variance
- Standard deviation and its properties
- Empirical relation between measures of dispersion
- Relative dispersion
- Coefficient of variation
- Standard variables and standard scores
- Population moments
- Skewness and kurtosis (for ungrouped and grouped data)
- Index numbers
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