Exploratory data analysis: numerical and graphical summaries, and transformations of univariate data; graphical evaluation and basic<br/>regression analysis of bi-variate data; probability calculations for normal distribution and checks for normality; design of experiments,<br/>different types of random sampling; central limit theorem; confidence intervals and hypothesis tests for single mean, two means and<br/>variances; checking assumptions; interference for more than two means: analysis of variance. The package SPPS will be used to<br/>perform most of the statistical analysis covered in this unit. -- Course Website