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Walid Sayed Emam Ismail

Associate Professor

Associate Professor of Statistics

كلية العلوم
Department of Statistics and Operations Research College of Science, King Saud University P.O.Box 2455 Riyadh 11451 Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Fax: 11-46
course

328 Stat

Course outline
STAT 328 (Statistical Packages) 3 credit hours
Dr: Walid Emam
Office:  2B50 Building #4,  
 E-mail:  wemam@ksu.edu.sa       
Text Books: 
 
1.      Minitab Guide, Second Edition Desmond J. Higham and Nicholas J. Higham A-Jin Publishing Company. Latest version
2.       Excel 2010 guide to accompany understanding basic statistics
sixth edition
3.      SPSS Guide to Data Analysis by Marija Norse’s. . Latest version
4.      Hector Guerrero. Excel Data Analysis: Modeling and Simulation,  Springer. . Latest version
5.      SPSS Survival Manual: A Step by Step Guide to Data Analysis Using IBM Spss. Latest version
6.      Alain F. Zuur l Elena N. Ieno Erik H.W.G. Meesters. A Beginner’s Guide to R, Springer. Latest version
Course Scope Contents: 
Using program code in a statistical software package (Excel – Minitab – SAS – SPSS - R) to write a program for data and statistical analysis.  Topics include creating and managing data files, graphical presentation - and Monte Carlo simulations.
 

Date  
Topics Covered
 
20/1/2020 Introduction to statistical analysis using excel
Some mathematical functions in Excel
27/1/2020 Statistical and logical functions in excel
3/2/2020 Descriptive statistics using excel
10/2/2020 Statistical tests using excel
17/2/2020 Correlation and regression using excel
Introduction to Minitab
24/2/2020 Descriptive statistics using Minitab
2/3/2020 Statistical distributions in Minitab
  5/3/2020   Mid-1 Exam
9/3/2020 Statistical tests using Minitab
   
16/3/2020 Correlation and regression using Minitab
Introduction to SPSS
23/3/2020 Descriptive statistics using SPSS
30/3/2020 Statistical tests using SPSS
Correlation and regression using SPSS
  2/4/2020 Mid-2 Exam
6/4/2020 Introduction to R
Statistical and mathematical functions in R
13/4/2020 Descriptive statistics using R
Statistical distributions in R
20/4/2020 Statistical tests using R
Correlation and regression using R
27/4/2020 Applications, Programming and simulation in R
Final exam :

 
Assignments and Tests:

Assignments and Labs Will be given during the classes 10 marks
Midterm test I Thursday, 5/3/2020 (17/7/1441), 7:00-8:30PM 25 marks
Midterm test II Thursday, 2/4/2020 (16/8/1441), 7:00-8:30PM 25 marks
Final Exam   40 marks

 
Attendance:                               
Student missing more than 25% of the total class hours won't be allowed to write the final exam.  
 

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