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Module Description

Module Name	Module Code	Lecture Hrs	Practical Hrs	Credits
Fundamentals of Statistics	STAT1002Y(1)	0	0	6

Description
Statistical thinking. Nature of statistical data. Basic data exploration. Presentation of data. Elementary Analysis: central, tendency, dispersion, skewness, time series analysis, index numbers, correlation and regression. Statistical inference : Point estimation. Optimal estimators. Confidence intervals, Hypothesis testing. Non parametric methods. ANOVA. Analysis of contingency tables. Regression Analysis. EDA. Data Transformations.
Faculty	Department
FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES	Department of Economics and Statistics
Contact Details
Administrative assistant: DILMAHOMED BOCUS Bibi Swaleha Telephone: 4037400 Email: s.dilmahomed@uom.ac.mu