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Terminated in academic year 2011/2012

Statistics A

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 151-0303/02
Abbreviation Stat A
Course title Statistics A
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Mathematical Methods in Economics
Course coordinator prof. RNDr. Dana Šalounová, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. An algebra of events.
Events, outcomes, the complement of an outcome. Operations over events.
2. Introduction to probability.
The addition law. Mutually exclusive events, conditional probability, independent events, the multiplication law. Bayes´ theorem.
3. Discrete random variables. Summary of discrete probability distributions.
4. Continuous random variables. Summary of continuous probability distributions.
5. Special cases of continuous distributions. Limit theorems.
6. Data, measurment. Summarizing data, graphs.
7. Numerical descriptive statistics. Measures of location.
8. Measures of dispersion.
9. Characteristics of shape of data sets.
10. Bivariate data, correlation coefficient.
11. Simple linear regression.
12. Populations, samples, statistical inference - preview.
13. Estimations. Point estimators, interval estimation of population characteristics.
14. Hypothesis testing - principles.

Literature

Teaching material of respective teachers.

Advised literature

ANDERSON, David Ray, Dennis J. SWEENEY a Thomas Arthur WILLIAMS. Modern business statistics with Microsoft Office Excel. 5th ed. Stamford: Cengage Learning, c2015. ISBN 978-1-305-08218-2.