Introduction to probability and Statistics

This course is aimed at being a pre term or a preparatory course for probability and statistics. It is very basic and introduces the students to the understanding of data and measuring associations. It also introduces the concepts of probability and distibutions

INTENDED AUDIENCE: Students, young managers/executives
PRE-REQUISITES: NONE
INDUSTRIES SUPPORT : Most industry should recognize this course.

COURSE LAYOUT

Week 1 :Different types of data, Tables, charts, histograms, frequency distributionsWeek 2 :Measures of associationWeek 3 : Probability concepts, conditional probability, bayes theormWeek 4 : Probability distributions – random variable, expected value and variance Discrete distributions – Binomial,
Poisson Continuous distributions – Uniform, Normal