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Quick Facts
| Medium Of Instructions | Mode Of Learning | Mode Of Delivery |
|---|---|---|
| English | Self Study | Video and Text Based |
Course Overview
The Descriptive Statistics by Swayam helps the students to learn the course on their self-paced time as it is an online programme. This is an elective course through which the learners can boost up their knowledge in statistics. Users also learn this course along with the subject chosen at the college/university to build a strong basement in this field.
This helps them to gain knowledge and enhance their skill is the desired field. They can also view an introductory video about this course before joining.
Participants, who opt for the certification for this programme, have to write an end-term exam which is proctored. This course is also offered with credits that can be added to their university/college credits to increase their score. This certification is more valuable for career opportunities as it is offered by Swayam, an initiative by the Government of India.
The Highlights
- Elective course
- Self-paced program
- 4 credit course
- Online course
- Instruction language is English
- Course duration is 12 weeks
- Undergraduate level course
- Course offered by Swayam
- Transfer of credits available
- Certification provided
- Certificate of completion by Yuvaraja’s College
Programme Offerings
- assignments
- assessment
- video lectures
- Discussion Forums
- Reading Materials
- quizzes
- assessments
Courses and Certificate Fees
| Certificate Availability | Certificate Providing Authority |
|---|---|
| yes | Yuvaraja's College, Mysore |
Eligibility Criteria
Education
The Descriptive Statistics online course can be taken by users who are pursuing an undergraduate degree.
Certification Qualifying Details
The students who score 40% marks in-course assessment and 40% marks in the proctored end-term exams are eligible for the Descriptive Statistics certification. They are also eligible for credit transfer when they obtain the above-mentioned marks.
What you will learn
Descriptive Statistics benefits the users who attempt this program.
- The brief explanation about the types of statistical data and frequency distribution makes the candidates understand the purpose.
- Stem and leaf plot, box plot, etc. teaches them how to plot and analyze statistics.
- They will know about different types of mean and mode from this course.
- They will learn the concepts of Arithmetic, trimmed, and corrected mean with the help of the problems given.
- Dispersion and absolute and relative measures of dispersion are learned by them.
- The more detailed description and methods in moments, skewness, and kurtosis are learned by working out the problems given.
- The problems on attributes and product-moment correlation coefficient are taught and solved by them.
- They learn the fitting of various curves such as the parabolic, exponential, geometric curves.
- The rank correlation coefficient is understood deeply as practical problems are given for it.
- They will learn partial & multiple correlation & regression practically from the Descriptive Statistics training.
Who it is for
The Descriptive Statistics certification course can be learned by the users listed below.
- All the interested candidates can participate in this course.
Admission Details
The Descriptive Statistics certification course can be joined by following the steps given below.
Step 1: The users can visit the https://onlinecourses.swayam2.ac.in/cec21_ma01/preview link to join this course.
Step 2: They should fill in the application form given after clicking “Join”.
Step 3: After submitting the application form, they will receive an email regarding the course details.
Step 4: Once the course is started, they can access the video contents and assignments.
Step 5: They should submit the assignments/assessments given for each week of the course to score a grade.
Step 6: After the completion of the course and assignments, they will receive mail regarding the Descriptive Statistics fees details and exam dates.
The Syllabus
- Types of statistical data
- Secondary data
- Primary data
- Frequency distribution
- Stem and leaf plot
- Diagrammatic and grouped data
- Concept of central tendency
- Box plot
- Geometric mean
- Median and mode
- Arithmetic mean
- Harmonic mean
- Mode, median and partition values (part-1)
- Mode, median and partition values (part-2)
- Arithmetic mean, weighted mean, trimmed mean, corrected mean- part-1
- Arithmetic mean, weighted mean, trimmed mean, corrected mean- part-2
- Concept of variation and dispersion
- Measures of Dispersion
- Absolute and relative measures of dispersion (Part -1)
- Absolute and relative measures of dispersion (Part -2)
- Skewness and kurtosis and their measures
- Moments
- Problems on moments, skewness & kurtosis
- Fitting of curves by least square method
- Problems on association of attributes
- Fitting of linear curve
- Fitting of exponential curve
- Fitting of parabolic curves
- Fitting of geometric curves
- Product moment correlation coefficient and its properties
- Scatter diagram
- Practical- problems on product moment correlation coefficient
- Practicals on rank correlation coefficient
- Rank correlation
- Fitting of linear regression and related results
- Multiple correlation and regression in three variables
- Practicals: problems on regression of two variables
- Measures and related results of multiple and partial correlation and regression in three variables
- Practicals on partial & multiple correlation & regression
- Partial correlation and regression in three variables
- Coefficient of determination