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SMDM - Week 1 Checklist

The document discusses a week 1 module on descriptive statistics from an online course. The module will take approximately 2 hours to complete over 5 days and include 4 videos totaling 2 hours and 25 minutes. Learners will understand measures of central tendency like mean, median and mode, measures of dispersion like range and standard deviation, and visualization techniques like histograms and box plots. The module will also include a hands-on case study applying descriptive statistics. Recommended textbooks on the topics are also listed.

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SMDM - Week 1 Checklist

The document discusses a week 1 module on descriptive statistics from an online course. The module will take approximately 2 hours to complete over 5 days and include 4 videos totaling 2 hours and 25 minutes. Learners will understand measures of central tendency like mean, median and mode, measures of dispersion like range and standard deviation, and visualization techniques like histograms and box plots. The module will also include a hands-on case study applying descriptive statistics. Recommended textbooks on the topics are also listed.

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Week 1: Descriptive Statistics (Total video duration= 2


hours. You will be required to spend 25 minutes/day
along with practicing datasets and quizzes)

Learning Outcomes from the Module:


After learning from this module, learners will be able to understand:

What is Statistics and why is it important in the field of Analytics

Measures of Central Tendency- Mean, Median and Mode

Measures of Dispersion- Range, IQR, Standard Deviation

Visualization using Histograms, Box plots and Outliers

Hands-on using a case study

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Mentor Session Duration: Faculty Name: No. of videos:


2 hours Dr. P K Viswanathan and Mr. Gurumoorthy 4
Video Duration of Conceptual
Video Name Topics Covered
No. the video or Hands On

Overview of the Course We will learn about the 4 fundamentals of Conceptual


1 25:32 Business Analytics. We will be given an
overview of 4 modules of the course namely
Descriptive Stats, Probability, Distributions,
Estimation and Hypothesis Testing.

We will learn how to transform Raw Data Conceptual


29:50
Measures of Central Tendency into meaningful information. We will be
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introduced to the concept of measures of
central tendency like mean, median, and
mode.

3 Measures of Dispersion 26:21 We will learn about the measures of Conceptual


dispersion like Range, Interquartile range,
standard deviation, and variation and
Visualization techniques like histogram and
box plot.

4 Descriptive Statistics 40:00 Understanding the application of Descriptive Hands On


Hands-on Statistics using Cardio Good Fitness Case Study

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Few textbooks
that you can refer to:
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Business Statistics : A First Course
By Kathryn A Szabat David M. Levine, P. K. Viswanathan, David
Stephan

2
Statistics for Business and
Economics
by David R. Anderson, Dennis J. Sweeney

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