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Information on Course

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Course Name :

INFERENTIAL STATISTICS

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Course Code: SQQS2063

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Name(s) of Academic Staff:

DR. ABDU MOHAMMED ALI ATTA

Topic

ESTIMATION METHODS
1.1 Random sampling and statistics.
1.2 Point estimator.
1.3 Method of moment.
1.4 Likelihood function (Identical Independent Distributions).
1.5 Maximum likelihood estimation.
1.6 Characteristics of good estimator: Sufficient, consistent, unbiased, variance minimum,
mean square error and efficient
INTERVAL ESTIMATOR
2.1 Interval estimation for mean, proportion and variance of one population.
2.2 Interval estimation for differences between means, differences between proportions
2.3 Interval estimation for ratio of two variances
HYPOTHESES TESTING
3.1 Introduction to hypothesis testing:
Null and alternative hypothesis, type I and type II error.
3.2 Power of tests, the Neyman-Pearson theory, uniformly most powerful (UMP) tests and
likelihood ratio test.
3.3 Hypotheses testing for one population mean.
3.4 Hypotheses testing for the difference of two population mean.
3.5 Hypotheses testing for dependent or paired population.
3.6 Hypotheses testing for one proportion population.
3.7 Hypotheses testing for the difference of two population proportion.
3.8 Statistical software output for the test of one and two population (SPSS).
CHI-SQUARE TEST
4.1 Introduction to Chi-Square Test.
4.2 Goodness-of-fit test:
4.2.1 2 x n contingency table and homogeneity test.
4.2.2 Multinomial distribution.
4.2.3 Poisson distribution.
4.2.4 Normality test.

4.3 Independent test (2 x 2 Fisher exact test, r x c).

4.4 Statistical software output for Chi-Square test (SPSS).
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NONPARAMETRIC
5.1 Sign test.
5.2 Run test (randomness).
5.3 Wilcoxon test.

BOOTSTRAP
6.1 Check for unbiasness.
6.2 Finding variance and confidence interval.

PERMUTATION TEST
7.1 Test statistics.
7.2 Sampling distribution.
7.3 Hypotheses testing.

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