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Introduction to statistical Methods
Paper Code:
RMT132
Credits:
3
Contact Hours:
90.00
Max. Marks:
100.00
Objective:
The course plan aims to introduce the students to the fundamentals of various quantitative methods which are useful in research. Knowledge of certain quantitative methods and statistical techniques to analyze the data would help them to organize the information gathered by them.
3.00
- Statistics: Meaning, Functions, Characteristics of Statistical data
- Scope of Statistics
3.00
- Statistical Inquiries and Sampling: Population, Census enumeration, Law of Statistical Regularity, Law of Large numbers.
3.00
- Classification of data: Meaning, Characteristics, Types.
- Tabulation of data: Objectives, Rules, Types.
3.00
- Diagrammatic Representation of data: Characteristics, Types, Significance, Simple
Multiple Bar.
3.00
- Measures of Central Tendency: Mean, Median, Mode
- Dispersion: Range, Quartile Deviation, Standard Deviation
References:
- Wright, Susan E. 1986 Social Science Statistics. Boston: Allyn & Bacon Inc.
- Loether, H.J. & McTavish, Donald. 1974 Inferential Statistics for Sociologists.
Boston: Allyn & Bacon Inc.
- Kurtz, Norman R. 1983 Introduction to Social Statistics. Paris: McGraw-Hill Book Co.
- Elifson et al. 1990 Fundamentals of Social Statistics. McGraw Hill Publishing Co.
- Levin, Jack .1983 Elementary Statistics in Social Research. New York: Harper & Row Publishers
- Cohen, Louis & Holliday, Michael. 1982 Statistics for Social Scientists. New York: Harper & Row Publishers
- Malec, Michael, A. 1977 Essential Statistics for Social Research. New York: J.B.Lippincott Co.
- Ahuja. Ram. 2006, Research Methods, Rawat Publications.
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