Statistics
Statistics
Syllabus
Department of Statistics
Detailed Syllabus
First Year
Descriptive Statistics: History of statistics, its definitions, nature and characteristics, Methods of
statistics, Scope, applications and Limitations of statistics. Sources of statistical data, Primary
and secondary data. Variables, Attributes, Classification, Tabulation, Different types of tables,
Frequency distribution. Graphical presentation of data, Detailed study of different types of
graphs and charts with their relative merits and demerits.
Measures of central tendency, Measures of dispersion, Moments, Skewness & Kurtosis and their
properties. Bivariate data. Scatter diagram, Simple correlation, Rank correlation, Correlation
ratio, Simple regression analysis, Principles of least squares, Lines of best fit, Standard error of
estimators of regression coefficients & their properties. Multiple correlation, Partial correlation,
Multiple regression, Estimation of multiple regression coefficients.
Books Recommended:
Probability: Elements of set theory. Experiment, Random Experiment Sample Space, Events,
Union and Intersection of Events, Different types of events. Meaning of probability, Scope of
probability, Different approaches of defining probability. Elementary theorems of probability,
Additive & multiplication rule, permutation & combination. Conditional probability, Theorems
on conditional probability, Theorem of total probability, Bayes’ theorem and its uses and
importance in statistics.
Random variable and its Probability Distributions: Discrete and continuous random
variables, Probability density function, Distribution function, Function of random variable and its
distribution, Joint distribution, marginal and conditional distributions, Independence of random
variables, Mathematical expectation, Expectations of sum and products of random variables,
Conditional expectation and conditional variance. Moments and moment generating functions,
Characteristic function, Cumulants and cumulant generating functions, Relation between
moments and cumulants.
Probability Distributions: Details study of Binomial, Negative Binomial, Geometric,
Hypergeometric, Uniform, Normal, Exponential, Beta, Gamma, Lognormal, Cauchy, Pareto
distributions and their properties.
Books Recommended:
1 Islam, M.Nurul : An Introduction to Statistics and Probability, 4 th Edition,
Mullick & Brothers, Dhaka New Market
2 Roy, M.K. : Fundamentals of Probability & Probability Distribution
3 Mosteller, Rourket : Probability with Statistical Applications.
Thomas
4 Hoq, M. S. : Probability : An Introduction
5 Ross : A First Course in Probability, Collier –McMillan, N.Y.
6 Feller, W. : Introduction to the Probability Theory and its Applications
Second Year
Sampling Distributions
Distribution of sample mean and variance and their independence, Detailed study of , t and F
distributions, Standard errors of statistics and their large sample approximations. Fisher’s Z
transformation, Distribution of sample correlation coefficient when population correlation
coefficient is zero.
Estimation
Concept of Estimation and problem of estimation, Estimator and Estimate. Properties of a good
estimator: Unbiasedness, Consistency, Efficiency, Sufficiency, Minimum Variance, Best
asymptotically normal, Consistent asymptotically normal. UMVUE, Rao-Black Well Theorem,
Cramer-Rao Inequality, MVB estimator, Use of Cramer-Rao inequality in finding UMVUE.
Point Estimation: ML method of estimation, Method of moments, method of Least Square,
Method of minimum chi-square, Bayesian Method of Estimation.
Interval Estimation: Concept of interval estimation, Confidence interval, Confidence limit,
Confidence bound, Confidence coefficients, Methods for finding confidence interval, Confidence
interval for mean, variance, difference of means, ratio of variance.
Test of Hypothesis
Concept: Test of hypothesis, Logic behind tests of hypothesis, Neyman-Pearson’s approach of
testing hypothesis.
Preliminaries of tests: Hypothesis, simple and composite hypotheses, Null and alternative
hypotheses, Concept of test of significance, procedures of testing a hypothesis, Test errors, Level
of significance, One-tailed and two-tailed tests, P-value. Concept of test Statistics: Normal, ,t
and F statistics. Testing the significance of a single mean, Single variance, Single proportion,
Difference of two means and proportions, Ratio of two variances and their confidence intervals.
Paired t-test. Testing the homogeneity of several population means, Variance and proportions.
Test of goodness of fit.
Books Recommended:
1 Mood, Graybill & Boes : Introduction to the Theory of Statistics 3rd ed. McGraw- Hill
2 Ashraf Ali : Methods of Statistics, Vol. II
3 Rao, C.R. : Linear Statistical Inference & its Applications, Wiley.
4 Islam, M, N. : An Introduction to Statistics and Probability, 4th Edition,
Mullick & Brothers, Dhaka New Market
4 Mostafa, M.G. : Methods of Statistics
5 Hogg R.Y. and Craig, : Introduction to mathematical statistics. McMillan- Collierm,
A.T N.Y.
Linear Algebra: Vector space, Subspace, Linear independence, Basis & Dimension, Iner
product, Length, Orthogonal Length, Orthogonal basis, Orthogonalisation process, Matrices &
their properties, Matrix operations and their uses in Statistics. Inverse of matrices and their
properties. Orthogonal, Idempotent, Patterned matrices and their properties and uses in Statistics.
Books Recommended:
Third Year
Index number
Concept of index number, Problems in the construction of index number, Construction of simple
and weighted indices, cost of living index number.
Time Series Analysis
Different components of time series data. Measurement of secular trend, seasonal, cyclical and
irregular components by different methods. Test of randomness of a time series data. Effect of
moving average on cyclical and irregular components.
Demography
Definition, nature and scope of demography. Sources of demographic data: Vital registration,
Survey and Census. Rates, ratios, and proportions. Age-Sex composition, Errors in age-sex data,
detecting errors in age data. Population pyramid. Concept of population change, Population
growth, Measurement of population growth with special reference to Bangladesh.
Definition, use and functions of life tables, different types of life table, construction of life tables.
Actuarial life table, its construction and application
Industrial and Official statistics
Nature and scope of industrial & official statistics, Concept & importance of quality control.
Quality control measures. Statistical quality control techniques, its uses and usefulness. Product
control and process control. Assignable and Non-assignable causes of variation. Control charts.
Construction of control charts. Acceptance sampling. Sources and limitations of official
statistics, Education Statistics, Different types of scores, I.Q. Construction of tests.
Books Recommended:
Analysis of Variance
Concepts, Definitions & Assumptions. One way, Two way & Three way classifications,
Experimental Design & Sample Design, Principles of design. Basic designs: CRD, RBD, LSD,
their relative efficiency, Analysis with missing values, ANOVA in Different designs. Basic
concepts of factorial experiments, 2 2, 23, Analysis, interpretation and uses of above mentioned
factorial experiments.
Sample Survey
Basic concept to sample survey, relative advantages, disadvantages and suitability of complete
and sample enumeration. Uses of sample survey. Role of sampling theory. Requirements of a
good sample design. Population, Sampling units, Sampling frame and related problems. Basic
principles of sample survey. Various steps involved in a sample survey. Pilot survey. Random or
probability sampling and Non-random or purposive sampling. Mixed sampling.
Different types of errors associated with sampling such as sampling errors & Non sampling
errors and complete enumeration. Various methods of data collection. Questionnaire and
schedule. Preparation of questionnaire. Different types of random sampling. Details study of
Simple random sampling, Stratified random sampling and Systematic sampling.
Books Recommended:
Analysis of CRD, RBD & LSD. Missing plot estimation with analysis. Drawing of SRS,
Estimation of parameters (mean & Variance).
Computing different types of index number. Cost of living index number. Determination of trend
and seasonal variation by different methods from time series data. Measurement of fertility and
mortality, Calculation of rates and ratios, Construction of life table.
Uses of interpolation formulae for equal and unequal interval. Use of Solution of equation.
Numerical integrations.