LEARNING OBJECTIVES

After studying this course, the student will be able to :

-       Mastering the basic concepts of decriptive statistics ;

-       Summarize and tabulate data in tabular form and represent it graphically ;

-       Calculation and interpretation of various basic measures : measure of central tendancy, dispersion, shape and concentration ;

-       Analyse and quantify the relationship between two variables and measure the strength and direction of this relationship ;

-       Calculating indices and learning about their meaning, usefulness and use;

-        Using the most important programs (Excel) to dispaly the data and calculate the most important indicators that were discussed .