The course will concentrate on the student acquiring an understanding of the techniques through their use. Syllabus Data summaries Types of data. Tabular and graphical presentation of data. Numerical summary measures of the average and variability of data. Sampling Normal distributions.
Hypothesis tests Tests of hypotheses.
Type I and II errors. 1- way analysis of variance. Paired t -tests. Chi-squared goodness of fit test. Use of the Excel spreadsheet package.