ST210 : Principles of Statistics

Department

Department of English Language

Academic Program

Bachelor in English Language

Type

General

Credits

02

Prerequisite

Overview

Descriptive statistics aims to describe, organize, classify, summarize and display a set of data in a clear manner in the form of tables or graphic figures and calculate various statistical measures to describe a variable (or more) in a given population

Intended learning outcomes

By studying this course, the student will be able to design frequency tables in various fields of geography, master the application of measures of central tendency, and will be able to distinguish between geographical statistical methods, and be able to use them in the geographical study; To reach scientific conclusions comparable and test

Teaching and learning methods

The course is taught by giving lectures interspersed with panel discussions, visual presentations, and scientific and practical exercises.

Methods of assessments

The course is evaluated by calculating 40 marks for the works, divided into 20 marks for the written midterm exam and 20 marks for participating in the discussion in the lecture. A written final exam of 60 degrees is conducted in order to follow in the same footsteps of the college.

The first week is the nature and concept of geographical statistics

The second week, data collection methods

The third week, methods of organizing and tabulating data

The fourth week, types of geographical samples

The fifth week presents the data tabularly and graphically

Sixth week measures of central tendency

The seventh week test measures of central tendency

Eighth week midterm exam

The ninth week dispersion measures

The tenth week correlation coefficient

Eleventh week simple linear regression

Twelfth week chi-square test

Thirteenth week T-test

The fourteenth week is the difference between descriptive and inferential statistics

The fifteenth week discuss some exercises

Sixteenth week final exam

Books and references: -

• Dr . Ahmed Abdel Samie, Principles of Statistics, Al-Nour Bookshop.

• Dr . Taha Hussein Al-Zubaidi, Principles of Statistics, Library of Science Methods.

• Dr . Muhammad Sobhi Abu Saleh, Principles of Statistics, Al-Nour Bookshop.

Note: The course instructor determines the main reference for teaching the course, and uses what he deems appropriate from the supporting references.