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Statistics syllabus

STT 3017 units · 27 topicsAcademic year 2083/84
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Statistics

7 units

1. Statistics and the Role in Tourism (5 LHs)

  1. Statistics in tourism planning and hotel management
  2. Populations, samples, variables and data types
  3. Descriptive and inferential statistics
  4. Data processing and applications

2. Data Collection and Organization (5 LHs)

  1. Tourism and hospitality data sources
  2. Diagrams, histograms and frequency distributions
  3. Scatter plots, cross tabulation and stem-and-leaf displays
  4. Software project work

3. Descriptive Statistics: Numerical Measures (15 LHs)

  1. Mean, median, mode and partition values
  2. Range, quartile deviation, variance and standard deviation
  3. Skewness and kurtosis
  4. Five-number summary and box plot
  5. Software project work

4. Introduction to Probability (3 LHs)

  1. Experiments, events and probability concepts
  2. Additive and multiplicative probability laws

5. Sampling Technique (5 LHs)

  1. Population, census and sampling objectives
  2. Probability and non-probability sampling
  3. Sample size and sampling errors

6. Tourism Statistics (10 LHs)

  1. International and domestic tourist movement
  2. Arrivals, departures and expenditure data
  3. Economic, social and environmental tourism indicators
  4. Time series trends and seasonal variation
  5. Software project work

7. Simple Correlation and Regression Analysis (5 LHs)

  1. Correlation, regression and scatter diagrams
  2. Karl Pearson correlation coefficient
  3. Simple regression and coefficients
  4. Software project work