PAKISTAN INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING & APPLIED SCIENCES

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENCES

Course Design and Approval Form

Course Title Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)

Course Level 5XX

Department Department of Computer and Information Sciences, PIEAS
Motivation The goal of EDA is to provide students with an introduction to many different types
(100 words Max) of quantitative research methods and statistical techniques for analyzing data. These
methods and techniques are very important to gain knowledge about data before
formal modeling commences. Exploratory techniques are also important for
eliminating or sharpening potential hypotheses about the world that can be
addressed by the data. EDA employs a variety of techniques to maximize insight
into a data set, to uncover underlying structure, to extract important variables, to
detect outliers and anomalies, to test underlying assumptions associated with any
model fitting or hypothesis test, to develop parsimonious models which explains the
data with a minimum number of predictor variables, and to determine the most
influential variables.
Target Audience MCS Students
Pre-requisites NIL
Course At the end of this course, successful candidates will:
Objectives be able to understand the broad directions of statistics and use this
information for making informed choices in analyzing data.
Credit Hours Lecture hours: 3 Lab hours: 1
Course Duration 16 weeks 1 Semester
Course Descriptive statistics, Measures of location, Measures of variability, Probability
Contents / Topics review, Discrete/ Continuous random variables and probability distributions, Joint
probability distributions, Statistics and sampling distributions, Point estimation,
Statistical intervals based on a single sample, Tests of hypotheses based on single
sample, Inferences based on two samples, The analysis of variance, Regression and
correlation, Goodness-of-fit tests and categorical data analysis
Course Plan Topic Time Details
Populations and 2 weeks Introduction to statistics, Statistics
Samples, Descriptive applications, The Centre of the data and the
Statistics, Measures of effects of extreme values, Five number
Location, Measures of summary, The centre of the data,
variability, Probability Categorical variables, Probability,
review, Sample Space, Conditional probability
Conditional Probability
Discrete/ Continuous 2 weeks Probability mass/ density function, The
random variables and CDF, Expected values of discrete/
probability distributions continuous random variable, Moments and
moment generating functions, The Binomial
probability distribution, Normal
Distributions
Jointly Distributed 2 weeks The joint probability mass/ density function,
Random Variables marginal probability mass/ density
functions, Expected Values, Covariance, and
Correlation, Conditional Distributions

Pakistan Institute of Engineering & Applied Sciences (PIEAS), P.O. Nilore, Islamabad, 45650, PAKISTAN
Ph: +92 51 2207381-2 www.pieas.edu.pk Fax: +92 51 2208070
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Statistics and Sampling 2 weeks Statistics and their distributions, Random

Distributions, Point sample, The distribution of the sample
Estimation mean, The central limit theorem, The law of
large numbers, The distribution of a linear
combination, Distributions based on a
normal random sample, Point estimate,
MSE, Unbiased estimators, Estimators with
minimum variance, Bootstrap, Methods of
point estimation, Fisher Information
Statistical Intervals 2 weeks Basic properties of condence intervals,
Based on a Single Condence level, Precision, and Choice of
Course Plan Sample sample size, Large-Sample condence
intervals for a population mean and
proportion, Intervals based on a normal
population distribution, Condence intervals
for the variance and standard deviation of a
normal population, Bootstrap condence
intervals,
Tests of Hypotheses 2 weeks Hypotheses and test procedures, Errors in
Based on a Single hypothesis testing, Tests about a population
Sample, Inference mean, Tests concerning a population
Based on Two Samples proportion, P-Values , Z tests and
condence intervals, The two-sample t test
and condence Interval, Analysis of paired
data, Inferences about two population
proportions/ variances, Comparisons using
the bootstrap and permutation methods
The Analysis of 2 weeks Single-Factor ANOVA, Multiple
Variance Comparisons in ANOVA, Two-Factor
ANOVA
Regression, Correlation, 2 weeks The Simple Linear and Logistic
Goodness-of-fit Tests Regression, Estimating Model Parameters,
and Categorical Data Inferences About the
Analysis Regression Coefcient, Prediction of Future
Y Values, Correlation, Aptness of the Model
and Model Checking, Multiple Regression
Analysis, Regression with Matrices,
Goodness-of-fit Tests, P-Values for Chi-
Squared Tests, Goodness of Fit for
Continuous Distributions
Course Books Jay L. Devore, Modern Mathematical Statistics with Applications, 2007
and References David M Diez, etc. OpenIntro Statistics. Aug 2015.
Gareth James, etc. An Introduction to Statistical Learning. Springer, 2013.
Daniel Navarro. Learning statistics with R. Online, 2014.
David M. Lane. Introduction to Statistics. Online.
Allen B. Downey. Think Stats: Probability and Statistics for Programmers.
2011.
Administrative Course Designer(s) Dr. Muhammad Abid & Dr. Syed Kashif
Information Saeed
Course Submitted to Coordinator May 06, 2017
Departmental Review
Review(s) by Board of Studies
Approval by Board of Studies
Review(s) by Board of Faculty

Pakistan Institute of Engineering & Applied Sciences (PIEAS), P.O. Nilore, Islamabad, 45650, PAKISTAN
Ph: +92 51 2207381-2 www.pieas.edu.pk Fax: +92 51 2208070
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DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENCES

Approval by Board of Faculty

Review by Academic Committee
Approval by Academic Committee
Course Code Assigned
(by the coordinator)
Other Information (if any): This course is suitable for all MCS streams as
a normal regular course

Pakistan Institute of Engineering & Applied Sciences (PIEAS), P.O. Nilore, Islamabad, 45650, PAKISTAN
Ph: +92 51 2207381-2 www.pieas.edu.pk Fax: +92 51 2208070