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UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS

BACHELOR OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS (BCA)


DEGREE PROGRAMME
SYLLABUS WITH EFFECT FROM 2023-2024
Year: II Semester: III
Elective: Statistics-I 220E3B
(Common to B.Sc.-CS, CS with AI, CS with DS, Software Appl.)
Lecture Hours: 5 per week Credits: 3
Learning Objectives: (for teachers: what they have to do in the class/lab/field)
Course Outcomes: (for students: To know what they are going to learn)
1. Know the uses of statistics in society
2. Organize, manage and present data
3. Analyze the statistical data graphically using frequency distribution and cumulative
frequency distribution.
4. Analyze statistical data using measures of central tendency, dispersion and location.
5. To understand correlation between continuous variables and association between
categorical variables.
Units Contents
Methods of collection: Complete enumeration – Sample Survey - Primary data -
Secondary data sources - Types of variables. Norminal, ordinal and scale data.
I
Presentation of Data: Presentation of data by tables - construction of tables
(Univariate and Bivariate) – frequency table and contingency table
Diagrammatic presentation: Line diagram, Bar diagrams: Simple, multiple,
subdivided and Percentage-Pie chart, comparative pie chart - Graphical
II
representation of a frequency distribution by histogram and frequency polygon and
Ogives
Analysis of Data (Univariate): Measures of central tendency: Arithmetic mean-
III
Median and Mode choice of an average-characteristic of a good average
Measures of dispersion: Range-Quartile deviation-mean deviation - standard
IV
deviation - relative measures of dispersion - Coefficient of Variance
Analysis of Data (Bivariate): Correlation- Scatter plot-coefficient of correlation-
Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient, Spearmen’s rank correlation coefficient-
V
correlation coefficient for bivariate frequency table- Association of attributes: Chi-
square test of independence of attributes
Suggested Readings:
Books for study:
1. Gupta, S.C and Kapoor, V. K (2002), Fundamentals of Mathematical Statistics,
Sultan Chand and Sons, New Delhi.
2. Goon A.M., Gupta M.K. and Dasgupta B. (2002): Fundamentals of Statistics, Vol. I
& II, 8th Edn. The World Press, Kolkata.
3. Irwin Miller, Marylees Miller (2006): John E. Freund’s Mathematical Statistics with
Applications, (7th Edn.), Prentice Hall International INC.
4. Mood, A.M. Graybill, F.A. and Boes, D.C. (2007): Introduction to the Theory of
Statistics, 3rd Edn., (Reprint), Tata McGraw-Hill Pub. Co. Ltd
Books for reference:
1. Saxena H.C.: Elementary Statistics. S. Chand & Co., 2009.

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