STA 231
Statistical Computing II
2
Course Description
At the end of the course, students should be able to:
1. explain the uses of computers in statistical computing;
2. demonstrate various statistical packages;
3. use some statistical packages in solving problems in statistical methodology;
4. demonstrate the use of spread sheet in application software; and
5. be exposed to packages such as SPSS, STATA, MINITAB, to demonstrate their abilities in
statistical methodology.
Course Outline
Uses of computers in statistical computing. Introduction to various statistical packages. Use of
statistical packages in solving problems in statistics. spread sheet applications. Such as SPSS,
STATA, MINITAB. can be used to demonstrate statistical methodology.