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Assist. Prof. Figen (Kosebalaban) Tokatli Izmir Institute of Technology Office: Food Eng. Dept. Room #: 335 Phone: 750 62 95 e-mail: [email protected] CP 253 STATISTICS FOR CITY PLANNERS (3-0) 3 Course Outline I. What is Statistics? Introduction to Statistics Descriptive statistics, inferential statistics Population, sample Variables II. Data Summary and Presentation Numerical descriptive methods Mean, variance, standard deviation Graphical descriptive methods Steam & leaf diagrams, frequency & histogram plots Shape of a Distribution Symmetric, skewed, introduction to normal distribution III. Probability Events, sample space, definition of probability, Venn diagrams Assigning probabilities to events Complement, union, and intersection of events, Conditional probability, independent events, mutually exclusive events Counting techniques (Factorials, permutation, combination, multiplication rule) IV. Probability Distributions Discrete probability distributions Probability mass function, cumulative distribution, mean and variance of a discrete random variable Binomial distribution Continuous probability distributions Probability density function, cumulative distribution, mean and variance of a continuous random variable Normal distribution Standard normal distribution V. Hypothesis Testing and Confidence Intervals Type I and Type II errors, power of a statistical test, P value Hypothesis tests on the means, hypothesis tests on the variance Testing for a single population Testing the difference between two populations VII. Linear Regression and Correlation. Introduction to Matrix Algebra Model. Estimating the coefficients Coefficients of Correlation Assessing the model Homework: 20 % Examinations: There will be two midterm exams (20 % each) and a final exam (40 %) Reference Books: McCall. Robert B., ‘Fundamental Statistics for Behavioral Sciences’, 5th ed., Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, publishers, 1990 (QA 276.12.M399 1990) Eccles, A., Graham, A., Porkess, R., ‘Statistics 1’, Hodder & Stoughton, 1993. (QA 276.E23 1993 v1) Eccles, A., Graham, A., Porkess, R., ‘Statistics 2’, Hodder & Stoughton, 1993. (QA 276.E23 1993 v2) Ikiz, F., Puskulcu, H., Eren, S., ‘Istatistige Giris’, 6th ed., Fakulteler Kitabevi, 2000 Wonnacott, Thomas H., Wonnacott, Ronald J. (1972). Introductory Statistics. New York: Wiley