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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