Objective: This course plan aims to provide exposure to the fundamentals of various quantitative methods which are useful in social research
• Types of Data: Primary and Secondary data
• Techniques of primary data collection: Observation, Interview, Questionnaire and Schedule
• Sources of Secondary data
• Frequency distributions- types and shapes
• Tabular Presentation- Univariate, Bivariate and Multivariate
• Diagrammatic and Graphic Presentation of data
• Mean (arithmetic, geometric and harmonic),
• Median and
• Mode.
• Dispersion - Range, Quartile Deviation, Mean Deviation, Standard Deviation and Coefficient of Variation.
• Skewness – Karl Pearson’s Coefficient
• Correlation (Product-moment and rank coefficient of correlation)
• Regression (fitting straight line trend using least-square method)
• Gupta, S.P., Statistical Methods (Recent Edition), S.Chand and Sons, New Delhi.
• Gupta, S.C. and V.K. Kapoor (2005), Fundamentals of Applied Statistics, S.Chand and Sons, New Delhi
• Croxton , F.E., D.J.Cowden and S. Klein(1973), Applied General Statistics, Prentice Hall ,New Delhi.
• Speigel, M.R. (2002),Schaum’s Outline of Theory and Problems of Statistics, McGraw Hill Book, London.
• Speigel, M.R. and Larry J. Stephens (2002), Schaum’s Outline of Theory and Problems of Statistics, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company Limited, New Delhi.
• Nagar, A.L. and R.K. Das, Basic Statistics , Oxford University Press, Bombay.
Links:
[1] https://www.economics.iisuniv.ac.in/courses/subjects/introductory-statistics