F.Y B.A External - Kachchh University

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F.Y.B.A. (S.S.)
Statistical Methods Paper VII
K.S.K.V. KACHCHH UNIVERSITY
[The course aims to provide an understanding of application of statistics to business and industries
while focusing to develop effective business communication skills among the students.]
A) 1. PRIMARY AND SECONDARY DATA:
Concept of primary and secondary data, Methods of data collection, direct and indirect
inquiry. Inquiry and questionnaire source of secondary data.
2. CLASSIFICATION AND GRAPHS:
Concept of classification, types and importance of classification. Discrete and continuous
series for univariate and bivariate data.
Graphs :
(i) Histogram
(ii) Frequency Polygone
(iii) Frequency curve
(iv) Ogive curve
(v) Pie Chart
Obtain the measure of central tendency (mean and mode) quartiles, deciles and
percentiles from the above graphs.
B) 1. MEASURE OF CENTRAL TENDENCY:
Arithmetic Mean, Weighted Mean, Geometric Mean, Harmonic Mean, Median, Mode,
Quartiles, Deciles and Percentiles from group and ungroup data.
2. MEASURE OF DISPERSION:
Range, Quartile deviation, Mean deviation, Standard deviation, Coefficient of variance.
C) TIME SERIES:
Definition and Meaning of time series. Components of time series. Trend, Seasonal, Cyclic
and Random components, Elimination of trend by the method of Moving average, method
of curve fitting, using or ordinary least squares principle only, curve fitting for numerical data
for linear and quadratic case only.