New Syllabus Course Title: Fundamental of Statistics Course Code: STAT.101 Nature of Course: Theory Group A 1. Introduction to Statistics [5] Meaning of Statistics as a Science, Importance of Statistics; Scope of Statistics in the field of physical Sciences, Social Sciences, Management Sciences, Information Technology, Agriculture, Insurance, Education and Psychology. 2. Population and Sample [8] Types of Characteristics, Scales of measurement, qualitative, quantitative, discrete and continuous variables, entities, types of data, (i)primary data, secondary data and their sources (ii)cross sectional data, time series data, failure time data, panel data, Notion of a statistical population, finite population, infinite population, homogeneous population and heterogeneous population, Notion of sample, random sample and non-random sample, methods of sampling (description only); simple random sampling with replacement (SRSWR) and without replacement (SRSWOR). 3. Presentation of Data [6] ...