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First Year B.A. Semester-I (Allied Course)
Statistical Methods
Objective: CODE : AC ST 01
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.
Key features:
To make them aware about Statistical Methods application in the real life.
Course duration: 45 Sessions, 3 sessions a week.
Topic
No.
125
Topic
1 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 curv (iv) Ogive curve
(v) Pie Chart
Obtain the measure of central tendency (mean and mode) quartiles, deciles and
percentiles from the above graphs.
2 MEASURE OF CENTRAL TENDENCY:
Arithmetic Mean, Weighted Mean, Geometric Mean, Harmonic Mean Median, Mode,
Quartiles, Deciles and Percentiles from group and ungroup data.
3 MEASURE OF DISPERSION:
Range, Quartile deviation, Mean deviation, Standard deviation, Coefficient of variance.
4 INDEX NUMBER:
Definition, Limitation and use of index numbers. Construction of wholesale price index
number and cost of living index numbers, Laspeyer, Passche, Bowley, Marshall Edge
Worth and Fisher’s Index number. Time and Factor reversal tests.