Course Overview

This course is designed to introduce student to fundamental concepts of statistics and enable them with basic skills that they can use in their daily life.

Course Objectives

The objectives of this course are as follows:

·       To understand the meaning of statistics, data, variable and information

·       To explain the division of statistics with respect to different kinds of data

·       To interpret ideas of population versus sample, random variables, and techniques of descriptive statistics

·       To calculate and interpret measures of central tendency and dispersion, including mean, median, standard deviation, and quartiles

·       To describe and identify the characteristics of different numerical distributions.

·       To explain the relevance of statistics in different kinds of planning activities.

Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs)

At the end of the course the students will be able to-

·       Demonstrate the basic principles of describing and presenting data;

·       Explain the role of statistics in different brunches of urban planning;

·       Describe and compute different measures of central tendencies and dispersion.