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GEO-105 Statistics I is a foundational course in Geography, focusing on statistical concepts and their application to spatial relationships. The course includes 32 lectures, requires a minimum of 70% attendance for final exam eligibility, and is evaluated through mid-term, sessional work, and a final exam. Key topics covered include data presentation, measures of central tendency and dispersion, probability distributions, and an introduction to SPSS.

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GEO-105 Statistics I is a foundational course in Geography, focusing on statistical concepts and their application to spatial relationships. The course includes 32 lectures, requires a minimum of 70% attendance for final exam eligibility, and is evaluated through mid-term, sessional work, and a final exam. Key topics covered include data presentation, measures of central tendency and dispersion, probability distributions, and an introduction to SPSS.

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Complete Course Outline

Course Code: GEO- 105 Course Title: Statistics I


Year: 2024 Semester: Fall 2024
Instructor’s Name: Siddiqua Bibi Office (Room No): 08
E-mail: [email protected] Office Hours: 8:30-4:30
Course Description GEO-105 Statistics is the core or basic subject of Geography
having 3 credit hours.

As Statistics, this course is designed to provide a survey of the


different branches of geographic inquiry and thought to help
students develop a critical awareness of the dynamic world in
which we live, as well as to begin asking questions that seek to
understand the spatial relationships between people, places, and
Overview the environment. It is designed for students who are new to
geography and will attempt to engage students’ broad interests
through the lens of geographical thinking and analysis. Students
in the course are expected to participate as active learners,
responsible for guiding and contributing to the content of the
course, drawing from their own backgrounds, knowledge, and
experiences.
Goals The main objective of teaching this course is to enable the
students to understand the basic concepts of Statistics. After
reading this course students will able to understand the advance
concepts and techniques of statistics in the upcoming semesters.
Text Books Frederick J Gravetter and Larry B Wallnau.
Statistics for the Behavioral Science. 7 ed.
Additional Readings Statistics Evaluation, 7th edition, John Willy & Sons. New York.

Lectures 32 sessions of 90 minutes each


Attendance Policy A minimum of 70% attendance is required for a student to
be eligible to take the final examination.
The students with less than 70% of the attendance in a course
shall be given the grade SA (Short Attendance) in such a course
and shall not be allowed to take its End Term Exams and will
have to reappear in the course to get the required attendance to
be eligible to sit in the exam when the course is offered the next
time.

Grading The course will be evaluated on the basis of the following


percentage:
 Mid Term 25%
 Sessional work 25%
o Presentation/Practical 10%
o Assignment/Practical 10%
o Quizzes 05%
 Final term 50%
Session Schedule
Session Topic

Week 1 Significant digits, Rounding of a Number, Collection of primary and


secondary data, Sources,

Week 2 Presentation of Data


Introduction, basic principles of classification and Tabulation,
Constructing of a frequency distribution, Relative and Cumulative
frequency distribution
Week 3 Diagrams, Graphs and their Construction, Bar charts, Pie chart,
Histogram,

Week 4 Frequency polygon and Frequency curve, Cumulative Types of frequency


curves. Exercises.
Discussion, Quiz, Presentation and Assignments

Week 5 Measures of Central Tendency


Introduction, Different types of Averages, Quantiles, The Mode,
Empirical Relation between Mean, Median and mode

Week 6 Relative Merits and Demerits of various Averages. Properties of Good


Average,

Week 7 Discussion, Quiz and Assignments, presentation

Week 8 MID TERM

Week 9 Measures of Dispersion


Introduction, Absolute and relative measures, Range, The semi-Inter-
quartile Range, The Mean Deviation, The Variance and standard
deviation,
Week 10 Properties of variance and standard Deviation
Week 11 Probability and Probability Distributions.
Discrete and continuous distributions: Binomial, Poisson and Normal
Distribution. Exercises
Week 12 Sampling and Sampling Distributions
Introduction, sample design and sampling frame, bias, sampling and non-
sampling errors, sampling with and without replacement,
Week 13 Probability and non-probability sampling, Sampling distributions for
single mean and proportion, Difference of means and proportions.
Exercises.
Week 14 Introduction to SPSS, functions and Uses

Week 15 Quiz, Presentation and Assignments


Week 16 Discussion, FINAL TERM

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