Rev No.

02 Course Outline MA 252 Credit Hours: 3 Page 1 of 2 Pages

Dated: 06-04-09

Statistical Inference - MA252

New Course

Text Book: - Introduction to Statistical Theory (Part-I, II), by Prof. Sher Muhammad Chaudhry
and Dr. Shahid Kamal.
References:-
(i) Richard I. Levin: Statistics for Management
(ii) Mensfield: Statistics for Business and Economics
Course Description:-

This course builds on the knowledge gained in the elementary course on statistics. It
emphasizes the relevance of statistics in business management. The major topics include:
statistical inference, sampling distributions, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, and
comparisons of sample means, variances and proportions. SPSS are introduced as computer
based tools for statistical analysis.

Pre- requisite:- Elementary Statistics

Grading Policy:-

In-semester Evaluations: 30%

End Semester Evaluation: 70%
Rev No. 02 Course Outline MA 252 Credit Hours: 3 Page 1 of 2 Pages
Dated: 06-04-09

WEEK WISE BREAKDOWN

Week Contents Chapter/Section
Introduction: Definition of Inferential Statistics, Importance
1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.4,
1 of Statistics, Population & Sample, Data Types and their
1.3
Collection
2 Binomial Distribution 8.2
3 Normal Distribution 9.5
Sampling & Sampling distribution: - Sampling,
Advantages of sampling, Probability & Non-Probability
4,5 14.1---14.4
sample, Sampling & Non-sampling errors, Sampling
distribution.
Estimation: - Introduction, Estimates & Estimators,
6,7 15.1, 15.2, 15.5
Estimation by confidence interval.
Hypothesis Testing:- Introduction, Null & Alternative
hypothesis, Simple & Composite hypothesis, Acceptance &
8,9 16.1, 16.2
Rejection region, The significance level, Test of significance,
Test based on normal distribution (large sample).
Chi-square distribution: - Confidence interval for  2 ,
17.2, 17.3.1,
Testing hypothesis about variance of normal distribution,
10,11 17.4.1, 17.5.2,
Test for goodness-of-fit, Testing hypothesis in independence
17.7
in contingency tables.
Student’s t-distribution:- Introduction, Confidence interval
12,13 18.1, 18.3, 18.4
estimate of mean from a small sample, Small sample tests
F-distribution: Confidence interval for the variance ratio
14 12 19.3, 19.4
2 , Testing hypothesis about the equality of two variances
2
Analysis of Variance:
15,16 1. One way 20.1---20.3
2. Two way
17 Computer application in Statistics (SPSS)
18 Final Term Exam