We have great pleasure to present the book “Descriptive Statistics and Introduction to Probability” to the students of First Semester of B.Sc. (Computer Science) of Mumbai University. The book has been written as per the revised syllabus of University of Mumbai.
The book is written in lucid language. The concepts are explained with live examples in such a way to make the subject interesting and easy to understand. At the same time, the rigours and conceptual nature of the subject has not been compromised.
The main purpose behind writing this book is to give basic as well as comprehensive background of Descriptive Statistics and Probability Theory. Attempt has been made to give weightage to topics of high relevance in the proportion envisaged in the University syllabus.
Contents –
Unit I
1. Data Presentation
2. Data Aggregation
Unit II
3. Moments
4. Measures of Skewness and Kurtosis
5. Correlation and Regression
6. Linear Regression
Unit III
7. Probability
8. Probability Definition