Statistics 2012-13

CURRICULUM
OF
STATISTICS
BS/MS
(Revised 2013)
HIGHER EDUCATION COMMISSION

ISLAMABAD
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CURRICULUM DIVISION, HEC
Prof. Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed Executive Director

Mr. Fida Hussain Director General (Acad)
Mr. Rizwan Shoukat Deputy Director (Curr)
Mr. Abid Wahab Assistant Director (Curr)
Mr. Riaz-ul-Haque Assistant Director (Curr)
Composed by: Tanveer Ali, HEC, Islamabad
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CONTENTS
1. Preface................................................................................... ......4
2. Introduction ............................................................................ ......6
3. Frame work for BS (4-year) in statistics layout .............................10
4. Model scheme of studies for BS (4-year) in statistics…………….12
5. List of general courses for statistics....................................... ......13
6. Elective Courses for BS (4-Year) in Statistics ...................... ......14
7. Detail of Courses ................................................................... ......15
8. Detail of Elective Courses ..................................................... ......33
9. Recommendations ................................................................. ......46
10. Annexure “A” .......................................................................... ......48
11. Annexure “B” .......................................................................... ......52
12. Annexure “C”.......................................................................... ......54
13. Annexure “D”.......................................................................... ......57
14. Annexure “E” .......................................................................... ......59
15. MS Statistics (2 Years program).......................................... ......62
16 Detail of Courses……………………………………………………..64
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PREFACE
The curriculum, with varying definitions, is said to be a plan of the
teaching-learning process that students of an academic programme are
required to undergo. It includes objectives & learning outcomes, course
contents, scheme of studies, teaching methodologies and methods of
assessment of learning. Since knowledge in all disciplines and fields is
expanding at a fast pace and new disciplines are also emerging; it is
imperative that curricula be developed and revised accordingly.
University Grants Commission (UGC) was designated as the competent

authority to develop, review and revise curricula beyond Class-XII vides
Section 3, Sub-Section 2 (ii), Act of Parliament No. X of 1976 titled
“Supervision of Curricula and Textbooks and Maintenance of
Standard of Education”. With the repeal of UGC Act, the same function
was assigned to the Higher Education Commission (HEC) under its
Ordinance of 2002, Section 10, Sub-Section 1 (v).
In compliance with the above provisions, the Curriculum Division of HEC

undertakes the revision of curricula after every three years through
respective National Curriculum Revision Committees (NCRCs) which
consist of eminent professors and researchers of relevant fields from public
and private sector universities, R&D organizations, councils, industry and
civil society by seeking nominations from their organizations.
In order to impart quality education which is at par with international

standards, HEC NCRCs have developed unified templates as guidelines
for the development and revision of curricula in the disciplines of Basic
Sciences, Applied Sciences, Social Sciences, Agriculture and Engineering
in 2007 and 2009.
It is hoped that this curriculum document, prepared by the respective

NCRC’s, would serve the purpose of meeting our national, social and
economic needs, and it would also provide the level of competency
specified in Pakistan Qualification Framework to make it compatible with
international educational standards. The curriculum is also placed on the
website of HEC (www.hec.gov.pk).
(Fida Hussain)
Director General (Academics)
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CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
STAGE-I STAGE-II STAGE-III STAGE-IV
CURRI. UNDER CURRI. IN DRAFT FINAL STAGE FOLLOW UP

CONSIDERATION STAGE STUDY
COLLECTION OF APPRAISAL OF 1ST PREP. OF FINAL QUESTIONNAIRE

REC DRAFT BY EXP. CURRI.
OF COL./UNIV
CONS. OF CRC. FINALIZATION OF INCORPORATION COMMENTS

DRAFT BY CRC OF REC. OF V.C.C.
PREP. OF DRAFT APPROVAL OF PRINTING OF REVIEW

BY CRC CURRI. BY V.C.C. CURRI.
Abbreviations Used: IMPLE. OF BACK TO

CRC. Curriculum Revision Committee CURRI. STAGE-I
VCC. Vice Chancellor’s Committee
EXP. Experts
COL. Colleges
UNI. Universities
ORIENTATION
PREP. Preparation COURSES
REC. Recommendations
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INTRODUCTION
MINUTES OF THE FINAL MEETING OF HEC NATIONAL

CURRICULUM REVISION COMMITTEE ON STATISTICS
HELD AT RC PESHAWAR FROM APRIL 22-24, 2013
The final meeting of National Curriculum Revision Committee (NCRC) in

the discipline of Statistics was held from April 22-24, 2013 at HEC
Regional Centre, Peshawar to finalize draft curriculum of Bachelor Studies
(BS) and Master Studies (MS) programme in Statistics, developed in
preliminary meeting held at Karachi. The following members attended the
meeting:-
1. Prof. Dr. Salahuddin Convener

Department of Statistics
University of Peshawar, Peshawar.
2. Prof. Dr. Ejaz Ahmed
Department of Computer Science
Institute of Business Management, Karachi.
3. Prof. Dr. Mir Ghulam Hyder Talpur
University of Sindh, Jamshoro.
4. Syed Anwer Hasnain,
Associate Professor,
Department of Statistics,
National College of Business Administration & Economics, Lahore .
5. Dr. Irshad Ahmad Arshad
Associate Professor/Chairman
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
International Islamic University, Islamabad.
6. Dr. Saleha Naghmi Habibullah
Associate Professor
Department of Statistics, Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore.
7. Mr. Munawar Iqbal ,
Assistant Professor
College of Statistical & Actuarial Sciences,
University of the Punjab, Lahore.
8. Dr. Amjad Ali Lecturer,
Department of Statistics, Islamia College, Peshawar.
9. Dr. Bahrawar Jan
Deputy Director General, Pakistan Bureau of Statistics, Islamabad.
10. Dr. Muhammad Azam, Associate Professor
Department of Statistics, Forman Christian College, Lahore.
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11. Dr. Yousaf Hayat,
Associate Professor
Department of Statistics Mathematics Statistics & Computer
Sciences, KPK Agricultural University Peshawar.
12. Prof. Dr. Muhammad Inayat Khan
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Agriculture, Faisalabad.
13. Mr. Habib Ullah Khan
Census Commissioner
Pakistan Bureau of statistics HQ, Islamabad.
14. Dr. Asifa Kamal,
Assistant Professor
Lahore College for Women University, Lahore.
15. Dr. Faisal Maqbool Zahid Secretary
Assistant Professor
Government College University Faisalabad.
2. The meeting started with the recitation of Holy Quran by Mr. Abid
Wahab. Mr. Zaheer Ahmed Awan, Director RC Peshawar, HEC on behalf
of the Chairperson and the Executive Director, HEC welcomed the
participants and thanked all the members of the Committee for sparing
precious time for this national cause. He briefed the participants on the aim
and objectives of the meeting with a particular focus on revising the course
outlines of BS (4-year) and also developing the course outlines of MS
Programme in Statistics so as to make it compatible with international
standards and demands as well as ensuring the uniformity of academic
standard within the country.
3. Mr. Riaz-ul-Haque then requested the Convener of the Committee

to conduct proceedings of all technical sessions of the meeting for three
days. Dr. Salahuddin, Professor, Department of Statistics, University of
Peshawar, Peshawar as Convener and Dr. Faisal Maqbool Zahid,
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Government College
University, Faisalabad as Secretary NCRC, thanked the participants for
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their participation and started proceedings of the meeting in accordance
with the agenda.
4. The Committee reviewed and discussed the draft curriculum of BS

Statistics, prepared in preliminary meeting and considered the inputs given
by the members of NCRC & after detailed discussion; the Committee
incorporated their suggestions in the draft curriculum. The Committee also
discussed the agenda item regarding development of Scheme of MS
Statistics degree programme and it was concluded that as per HEC policy
and international standards credit hours for MS would be 30 credit, 24
credit hours for courses and 6 credit hours for research work.
5. After thorough and three days deliberations the committee

unanimously approved the final draft curriculum of the BS and MS
Statistics degree programmes which was prepared in the preliminary
meeting of NCRC.
The Committee during its deliberation achieved the following objectives:
1. Reviewed and finalized the draft curriculum for Bachelor Studies

(BS) and Master Studies (MS) in the discipline of Statistics so as to
bring it at par with international standards.
2. Incorporated latest reading & writing material against each course.
3. Brought uniformity and developed minimum baseline courses in
each and every course of study.
4. Made recommendations for promotion/development of the discipline.
6. The Convener of the NCRC, Prof. Dr. Salahuddin thanked all the
members for their valuable inputs in finalizing the revised curriculum
keeping in view the requirement of the country and to make it more
practical competitive and effective. He appreciated for their dedication and
hard work in this task of national importance. The Committee highly
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appreciated the efforts made by the officers of HEC and all of other officials
of HEC Regional Centre, Peshawar for providing local hospitality.
7. Mr. Abid Wahab & Mr. Riaz-ul-Haque, Assistant Directors, HEC

thanked the Convener and all the members of the Committee on behalf of
Mr. Farman Ullah Anjum, Director General (Academics), HEC for sparing
precious time and for their quality contribution towards preparation of the
preliminary draft curriculum in the discipline of Statistics.
8. The meeting ended with vote of thanks to and from the chair.
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FRAME WORK FOR BS (4-YEAR) IN STATISTICS LAYOUT
Compulsory General Courses to be Discipline Specific
Requirements chosen from other Foundation Courses
(the student has departments
no choice)
9 courses 7-8 courses 9-10 courses
25 Credit hours 21-24 Cr. Hours 30-33 Credit hours
Cr Cr Cr
Subject Subject Subject
Hr Hr Hr
1. Introduction to Introductory
1. English I 3 3 3
Psychology Statistics
Introduction to
2. Introduction to Probability &
2. English II 3 3 3
Logic Probability
Distributions
Basic
3. Fundamentals of
3. English III 3 3 Statistical 3
Economics
Inference
4. Communi
4. International Linear Algebra
cation 3 3 3
Relations
Skill
Introduction to
Regression
5. Pakistan 5. Basics of
2 3 Analysis & 3
Studies Sociology
Experimental
Design
6. Islamic 6. Introduction to Applied
Studies / 2 Environmental 3 Statistics 3
Ethics Sciences
Probability
7. Principles of
7. Calculus-I 3 3 Distribution-1 3
Management
8. Business
8. Calculus- Administration Sampling
3 3 3
II 9. (Entrepreneurshi Techniques-I
p)
OR
9. Introduct
ion to * from the list of Statistical
3 3
Comput general courses given Packages
er in Annexure on Page 5
TOTAL 25 21 27
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Major courses including Elective Courses within
research project/internship the major
11-13 courses 4 courses
36-42 Credit hours 12 Credit Hours
Cr Cr
Subject Subject
Hr Hr
4 1. Operations 3
1. Regression Analysis
Research
2. Design & Analysis of 4 2. Stochastic 3
Experiment-I Process
3. Probability and Probability 3. Reliability 3
3
Distribution-II Analysis
4. Time Series
4. Sampling Techniques-II 4 3
Analysis
3
4 5. Research
5. Econometrics
Methodology
6. Design & Analysis of 4 6. Non-Parametric 3

Experiment-II Methods
3
7. Statistical Inference-1
3
8. Multivariate Analysis-I
4 OR
9. Multivariate Analysis-II
** from the list of
3 elective courses.
10. Population Studies
4
11. Statistical Inference-II
3
12. Òfficial Statistics
13. Research Project / Internship 3

TOTAL 46 12
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MODEL SCHEME OF STUDIES FOR BS (4-YEAR) IN
STATISTICS
Semester / Name of Subject Credits

Year
First Introductory Statistics 3
Pakistan Studies 2
English-I (Functional English) 3
Calculus-I 3
General-I 3
General-II 3
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Second Introduction to Probability Distributions 3
Islamic Studies/Ethics 2
English-II 3
Calculus-II 3
General-III 3
General-IV 3
17
Third Basic Statistical Inference 3
English-III 3
Introduction to Computer 3
General-V 3
General-VI 3
15
Fourth Applied Statistics 3
Introduction to Regression Analysis & 3
Experimental Design
Communication Skills 3
Linear Algebra 3
General-VII 3
15
Fifth Probability Distribution-1 3
Sampling Technique-I 4
Design & Analysis of Experiment-I 4
Regression Analysis 4
Statistical Packages 3
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Sixth Probability Distribution-II 3
Sampling Techniques-II 4
Design & Analysis of Experiment-II 4
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Econometrics 4
Official Statistics 3
18
Seventh Statistical Inference-1 3
Applied Multivariate Analysis 4
Time Series Analysis 3
Elective I 3
Elective-II 3
16
Eight Statistical Inference-II 3
Population Studies 4
Research Project / Internship 3
Elective-III 3
Elective-IV 3
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Total 132
Note: 4 credit hours courses must include Lab. /Practical.
Aims and Objectives
The major aims and objectives of the curriculum of Statistics are to adapt
the curriculum to meet the international standards.
1. To provide a sound footing of the subject matter of statistical theory

with applications, so that the students can pursue higher degrees and
research in the field of statistics.
2. To train the students in the use of statistical software and techniques of
data collection and analysis so that they can compete in the job
market.
3. To involve the students in research project so that they can be better

trained in the field of research.
4. To develop a solid foundation for the effective operational and strategic

decisions based on statistical theory and methodology in almost every
discipline.
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* LIST OF GENERAL COURSES FOR STATISTICS
Seven courses are to be selected from the following list of courses,

according to available facilities and faculty of the universities.
1. Business Administration (Entrepreneurship)

2. Human Resource Management
3. Environmental Sciences
4. Principles of Management & Marketing
5. Basic Financial Management
6. History of Human Civilization
7. Introduction to Biology
8. Foreign Language other than English
9. Introduction to Physics
10. Advanced Calculus
11. Introduction to Genetics
12. Introduction to Geography
or any other subject depending upon the expertise available.
** Elective Courses for BS (4-Year) Programme for

Statistics
1. Operations Research
2. Stochastic Process
3. Reliability Analysis
4. Decision Theory
5. Robust Methods
6. Survival Analysis
7. Bio-Statistics
8. Data Mining
9. Actuarial Statistics-I
10. Actuarial Statistics-II
11. Mathematical Models and Simulation
12. Categorical Data Analysis
13. Numerical Methods
14. Bayesian Inference
15. Statistical Quality Control,
or any other subject depending upon the expertise available.
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DETAIL OF COURSES
The proposed outlines of the BS (4-YEAR) programme in Statistics are as

follows:
STAT- 101: Introductory Statistics - I
The nature and scope of the Statistics, Variables and their types, Data and
its sources, Scales of measurements, Tabulation and classification of data,
Graphs and Charts: Stem-and leaf diagram, Box and Whisker plots and
their interpretation. Measures of Central Tendency, Quantiles, Meaures of
Dispersion: Their properties, usage, limitations and comparison. Moments,
Measures of Skewness and Kurtosis and Distribution shapes. Rates and
ratios, Standardized scores
Recommended Books
1. A basic course in statistics / G.M. Clarke, D. Cooke. Edition: 5th
ed. Publisher: London : John Wiley, 2004
2. Chaudhry, S.M.and Kamal, S. (2008), “Introduction to Statistical
Theory” Parts I & II, 8th ed, Ilmi Kitab Khana, Lahore, Pakistan.
3. Mann, P. S. (2010) Introductory Statistics. Wiley.
4. Mclave, J.T.,Benson, P.G. and Snitch, T. (2005) “Statistics for
Business & Economics” 9th ed. Prentice Hall, New Jersey.
5. Schaum's outline of theory and problems of beginning statistics /
Larry J. Stephens. Edition: 2nd ed. Publisher: New York : McGraw-
Hill, 2006
6. Spiegel, M.R., Schiller, J.L. and Sirinivasan, R.L. (2000)
“Probability and Statistics”, 2nd ed. Schaums Outlines Series.
McGraw Hill. NY.
7. Sullivan, M., Fundamentals of statistics, III. Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Boston: Prentice Hall, 2011.
8. Walpole, R.E., Myers, R.H and Myers, S.L. (1998), “Probability and
Statistics for Engineers and Scientist” 6th edition, Prentice Hall, NY.
9. Weiss, N.A.(1997), “Introductory Statistics” 4th ed. Addison-Wesley
Pub. Company, Inc.
10.
STAT- 102: Introduction to Probability & Probability
Distributions
Probability Concepts, Addition and Multiplication rules, bivariate frequency

tables, joint and marginal probabilities, Conditional probability and
independence, Bayes’ rule
Random Variables, Discrete Probability Distribution, Mean and Variance of
a discrete random variable, Bernoulli trials, Properties, applications and
fitting of Binomial, Poisson, Hypergeometric, Negative Binomial and
Geometric distributions
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Continuous Random Variable, probability density function and its
properties, Normal Distribution and its properties, Standard Normal Curve
Recommended Books:
1. Cacoullos, T., Exercises in probability, Publisher: New York: Springer-
Verlag, 2009
2. Chaudhry, S.M.and Kamal, S. (2008), “Introduction to Statistical
Theory” Parts I & II, 8th ed, Ilmi Kitab Khana, Lahore, Pakistan.
3. Mann, P. S. (2010) Introductory Statistics. Wiley.
4. Clark, G.M. and Cooke, D. (1998), “A Basic Course in Statistics” 4th ed,
Arnold, London.
5. Mclave, J.T., Benson, P.G. and Snitch, T. (2005) “Statistics for
Business & Economics” 9th Edition. Prentice Hall, New Jersey.
6. Santos.D., Probability: an introduction, Publisher: Sudbury, Mass.:
Jones and Bartlett Publishers, c2011.
7. Spiegel, M.R., Schiller, J.L. and Sirinivasan, R.L. (2000) “Probability
and Statistics”, 2nd ed. Schaums Outlines Series. McGraw Hill. NY.
8. Walpole, R.E., Myers, R.H and Myers, S.L. (2007), “Probability and
9. Weiss, N.A. (1997), “Introductory Statistics” 4th ed. Addison-Wesley
Pub. Company, Inc.
STAT- 202: Basic Statistical Inference

Sampling distribution: concepts and properties, Central limit theorem.
Estimation: Point Estimation. Desirable Properties of a Good Estimator,
Interval Estimation, Interval Estimation of population mean. Large and
small sample confidence intervals for Population Mean
Nature of Hypothesis Testing and Types of errors, Hypothesis Testing for
Population Mean and variance
Inferences for Two Population Means, Large-sample inferences for Two
Populations using Independent Samples, Inferences for the Mean of Two
Normal Populations using Independent Samples (variances are assumed
Equal/Not Equal). Inference for Two Populations Mean using Paired
Samples
Inferences for Population Proportions, Confidence Intervals and hypothesis
testing for Population Proportion, Inferences for Two Populations
Proportions using Independent Samples, Estimation of sample size
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Pre-Requisite- STAT-102
Recommended Books:
1. Chaudhry, S.M. and Kamal, S. (2008), “Introduction to Statistical

Theory” Part I, II, 8th ed, Ilmi Kitab Khana, Lahore, Pakistan.
2. Clark, G.M. and Cooke, D. (1998), “A Basic Course in Statistics” 4th
ed, Arnold, London.
3. Mclave, J.T., Benson P.G. and Snitch, T. (2005) “Statistics for
Business & Economics” 9th Prentice Hall New Jersey.
4. Spiegel, M.R., Schiller, J.L. and Sirinivasan, R.L. (2000) “Probability
and Statistics”, 2nd ed. Schaums Outlines Series. McGraw-Hill. NY.
5. Walpole, R.E., Myers, R.H. and Myers, S.L. (2007), “Probability and
6. Weiss, N.A. (1997), “Introductory Statistics” 4th ed. Addison-Wesley
Pub. Company, Inc.
STAT- 203: Introduction to Regression Analysis and

Experimental Design
Concepts of Regression and Correlation, Simple Linear regression,
multiple linear regression, Inference regarding regression parameters,
linear correlation: simple, partial and multiple correlation, Inference
regarding correlation coefficient, Coefficient of determination
One-Way and Two-Way Analysis of Variance
Design of Experiments, Basic Principles of Design of Experiments,
Description, Layout and Analysis of Completely Randomized Design,
Randomized Complete Block Design and Latin Square Design, Multiple
Comparisons (LSD and Duncan’s test)
Pre-Requisite: STAT-101
Recommended Books:
1. Chaudhry, S.M., and Kamal, S., (2009), “Introduction to Statistical

Theory” Part I, II, 8th ed, Ilmi Kitab Khana, Lahore, Pakistan.
2. Clark, G. M. and Kempston, R. E. (1997), “Introduction to the Design
& Analysis of Experiment” Arnold London.
3. Walpole, P.E., Myers R.H., Myers S.L. (2007), “Probability and
Statistics for Engineers and Scientists”, 7th ed. Prentice Hall.
4. Weiss, N.A, (1997), “Introductory Statistics” 4th ed. Addison-Wesley
Pub. Company, Inc.
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STAT- 201: Applied Statistics
Sampling: Sample versus population, Sampling, advantages of sampling,
statistic and parameter. Probability sampling techniques: Simple Random
sampling, Stratified random sampling, Systematic random sampling,
Cluster Sampling. Non-probability sampling techniques: Quota sampling,
purposive sampling, Snowball sampling. Census and survey problem,
framing of questionnaire, Sampling and Non-Sampling Errors
Index numbers: construction and uses of index numbers, un-weighted
index numbers (simple aggregative index, average of relative price index
numbers), weighted index numbers (Laspayers, Paaches and Fishers ideal
index numbers), Consumer price index (CPI) and Sensitive Price Indicators
Time Series Analysis: Components of time series and their decomposition.
Vital Statistics: Meaning of vital statistics, registrations of Birth and death in
Pakistan. Uses of vital statistics, short comings of vital statistics, rates and
ratios (Sex ratio, child women ratio, birth and death ratio, population growth
rate, classification of natal rates, death rates or mortality rates, crude death
rate, specific death rate, infant mortality rate, case fatality rate, fertility
rates, crude birth rate, specific birth rate, standardized death rate,
reproduction rates, morbidity or sickness rates, marriage rates, divorce
rates etc. general; fertility rate, total fertility rate.)
Recommended Books:
1. Chaudhry, S.M. and S. Kamal, (2009), “Introduction to Statistical

Theory” Part I, II, 8th Ed, IImi Kitab Khana, Lahore, Pakistan.
2. Clark, G.M. and Cooke, D. (1998), “A Basic Course in Statistics” 4th
ed, Arnold, London.
3. Cochran, W.G. (1977) “Sampling Techniques”.3rd Ed.
4. Mclave, J.T. Benson, P.G. and Snitch, T. (2005) “Statistics for
Business & Economics” 9th Edition, Prentice Hall, New Jersey.
5. Pollard, A.H. Yousuf, F. and Pollard G.M. (1982), “Demographic
Techniques”, Pergamon Press, Sydney.
6. Walpole, P.E. Myers, R.H., Myers S.L. (1998), “Probability and
Statistics for Engineers and Scientists”, Prentice Hall.
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STAT- 204: Statistical Packages
Introduction to Minitab, data manipulation in Minitab, graphical

representation in Minitab, Qualitative and Quantitative data presentation
and analyzing data in Minitab, Programming in Minitab
Introduction of SPSS, data manipulation in SPSS, simple arithmetic in
SPSS, SPSS function related to probability distributions, SPSS modules,
simple graphing in SPSS
Analysis using SPSS syntax programming
Note: Use of any other statistical package based upon the availability of
the Software.
Recommended Books:
1. Colin D. Gray and Paul R. Kinnear, IBM SPSS statistics 19 made

simple. Publisher: New York: Psychology Press, 2012.
2. Kerr A. W., Hall, H. K., and Kozub, S. A. (2002) Doing Statistics with
SPSS. Sage Publications.
3. SPSS (2010) SPSS Statistics 19 Core System User’s Guide.
4. Marques de Sá, Joaquim P.( 2003) Applied Statistics using SPSS,
STATISTICA and MATLAB
5. Norusis, Marija (2006) SPSS 14.0 Guide to Data Analysis, Prentice
Hall, New Jersey.
6. Ryan, Barbara F.; Joiner, Brian L. and Cryer, Jonathan D.(2005)
MINITAB Handbook, 5th Edition, Duxbury Press, California.
7. Susan A. Nolan and Thomas E. Heinzen. Study Guide & SPSS
Manual to accompany statistics for the behavioral sciences Edition:
2nd ed. Publisher: New York : Worth Publishers, 2012
STAT- 301: Probability Distributions-I

Distribution function, Probability mass function and probability density
function. Joint and conditional distributions for two and more random
variables, Marginal and conditional distributions, stochastic independence,
Baye’s theorem, Mathematical expectation and its properties Conditional
expectation, variance and moments, Probability generating function,
Moment generating and characteristic functions and their properties,
Relation between moments and cummulants, Probability distributions:
Bernoulli, Binomial, Hypergeometric, Poisson, Negative binomial,
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Geometric, Multinomial distribution. Normal approximation to binomial &
Poisson distribution, Normal distribution with moments and cummulants
Recommended Books
1. Fridett, B. & Gray, L. (1997). “A Modern Approach to Probability
Theory” Birkhallser, Boston.
2. Freund, J. E. (1997). “Mathematical Statistics”, Prentice Hall, New
Jersey 6th edition.
3. Haq, M. (1984). Foundation of Probability and Statistics, Tahir sons,
Urdu Bazar, Karachi.
4. Hirai, A.S. (2002), “A Course in Mathematical Statistics”, Ilmi Kutab
Khana, Lahore.
5. Hogg, R.M. and Craig, A.T. (1995), “Introduction to Mathematical
Statistics”. Prentice Hall, Engle wood Cliffs, New Jersey.
6. Khan, M. K., (1996). “Probability with Applications”, Maktiba Ilmi,
Lahore.
7. Mood, A.M, Graybill, F.A. and Boes, D.C. (1997), “Introduction to the
Theory of Statistics”, McGraw Hill, New York.
10. Norman L. Johnson , Samuel Kotz , N. Balakrishnan (1994).
Continuous Univariate Distributions, Vol. 1 (Wiley Series in
Probability and Statistics), Wiley-Interscience: New York.
11. Samuel Kotz , N. Balakrishnan, Norman L. Johnson (2000).
Continuous Multivariate Distributions, Volume 1, Models and
Applications, 2nd Edition, Wiley-Interscience: New York.
12. Sheldon Ross (2009). First Course in Probability, (8th Edition),
Pearson
Stirzaker, D. (1999). “Probability and Random Variables”. Cambridge
University Press, Cambridge.
13. Stuart, A. and Ord, J .K. Kendall’s’ (1998), “Advanced Theory of
Statistics”, Vol. I, Charles Griffin, London.
STAT- 303: Sampling Techniques-I

Advantages of sampling, requirements of a good sample, bias, sampling
and non-sampling errors, Steps and problems involved in planning and
conduct of census and their sources, sample surveys, Selection and
estimation procedures. Description and properties of simple random
sampling, Sampling for proportions and percentages, Estimation of
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variances, standard errors and confidence limits, Sample size
determination under different conditions, Description and properties of
stratified random sampling, Formation of strata, Different methods of
allocation of sample size, Systematic sampling, Ratio and regression
estimates in simple and stratified random sampling
Recommended Books:
1. Brewer, K. R. & Hanif, M. (1983). Sampling with Unequal Probabilities,

Lecture Notes in Statistics Series, No. 15, Springer Verlag.
2. Bethelem, J. (2009) Applied Survey Methods: A Statistical
Perspective. Willey.
3. Chambers, R. L., and Skimmer, C. J. (2003) Analysis of Survey
Data. Wiley.
4. Chaudhary, A., and Stemger, H. (2005), Survey sampling theory and
methods. Chapman & Hall.
5. Cochran, W.G. (1977), “Sampling Techniques”, 3rd ed, John Wiley
and Sons, New York.
6. Ferguson, T.S. (1996), “A Course in large Sample theory, Chapman
& Hall, London.
7. Kish, L. (1992). “Survey Sampling”, John Wiley, New York.
8. Paduri S. R. S. Rao (2000) Sampling Methodologies with
Applications, Chapman & Hall
9. Raj, D. (1971) “Design of Sample Survey”. McGraw Hill, New York.
10. Raj, D. & Chandhok, P. (1998), “Sample Survey Theory”. Narosa
Publishing House, New Delhi.
11. Singh, R. and Singh N, (1996), “Elements of Survey Sampling”,
Kulwar Academic Publisher, Dodrecht.
12. Sukhatme, P.V, Sukhatme, B., Sukhatme, S., and Asok, A. (1985),
“Sampling Theory of Survey with Application”. Iowa State University
Press
STAT- 307: Regression Analysis

General linear model and its assumptions, Least squares estimators,
Maximum Likelihood Estimator, tests of significance for regression model
and regression parameters. Confidence intervals for regression
parameters, Test of linearity of regression, Use of extraneous information
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in linear regression model. Residual analysis, Detection and study of
outliers, Polynomial regression, orthogonal polynomial, orthogonal
regression analysis, Specification of models
Recommended Books:
1. Baltagi, B. H. (1999). “Econometrics”, 2nd Edition, Springer Varlog.

2. Johnston, J. and Di. Nardo, J., (1997). “Econometric Method”, 4th
Edition, McGraw-Hill, New York.
3. Maddela, G.S. (1977). “Econometrics”, McGraw Hill. New York.
4. Searle, S. R. (1971), “Linear Models”, John Wiley, New York.
5. Yan, X. and Zu, X. G. (2009) Linear Regression Analysis: Theory &
Computing. World Scientific Publications.
6. Wonnacott, T.H. and Wonnacott R.J. (1998). “Econometrics”, John
Wiley, New -York.
STAT- 305: Design and Analysis of Experiments-I
Principles of Design of Experiments, Analysis of variance and its

assumptions, Cochran theorem, Fixed, random and mixed effect models,
Completely Randomized, Randomized Complete Block, Latin square,
Graeco-Latin square and cross-over designs, Missing observations,
Relative efficiency of designs, Estimation of mean squares and their
expectations, Multiple Comparisons tests
Analysis of covariance in CR, RCB designs, Estimation of missing values
in analysis of covariance.
Effect of violation of assumptions and transformations
Recommended Books:
1. Boniface, D.R. (1995). “Experiment Design & Statistical Methods”,

Chapman & Hall.
2. Cochran, W.G. and Cox, G.M. (1992). “Experimental Design”, John
Wiley, New York.
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3. Clarke, G.M. (1994). “Statistics & Experimental Design”. Edward
Arnold.
4. Clarke, G.M., and Kempton, R.E. (1997), “Introduction to the Design
& Analysis of Experiments”, Edward Arnold.
5. Das, M.N.and Geri, N.C, (1986). “Design and Analysis of
Experiments”, John Wiley, New York.
6. Gomez, K.A., and Gomez, A.A. (1984).“Statistical Procedures for
Agricultural Research”, 2nd Edition, John Wiley, New York.
7. Harold, R. L (1992). “Analysis of Variance in Experimental Design”.
Springer Verlage
8. Hicks, C.R. (1982). “Fundamental Concepts in Design and Analysis
of Experiments” Saunders
9. Hunter, B. and Hunter, W. G. (2005) Statistics for Experimenters:
Design, Innovation and Discovery. Wiley.
10. Maxwell, S.E. and Delaney, H.D. (1990). “Designing Experiments
and Analysis of Data”. A model comparison perspective. Belment
and Wadeson.
11. Mead, R. (1988). “The Design of Experiments”. Cambridge
12. Montgomery, D. C., Design and analysis of experiments, Edition: 7th
ed. Publisher: New Jersey : John Wiley, 2009
13. Myers, R.H. and Montgomery, D.C. (1995). “Response Surface
Methodology; Process & Product Optimization Using Design”, John
Wiley.
14. Steel, Robert, G. D., Terrie James H., and Dickey David A. (1997).
“Principles and Procedures of Statistics: A Biometrical Approach” 3rd
Edition, McGraw-Hill, New York.
STAT- 310: Non-Parametric Methods

Chi-Square Procedures: Chi-Square Goodness of fit Test, Chi-Square test
of independence, Location estimates for single sample: The sign test,
modified sign test, Wilcoxon signed rank test, confidence interval based on
these tests. Runs test for randomness.
Distribution tests and rank transformation, Kolmogrov’s test, Lilliefor’s test

and Shapiro-Wilks test for normality. Tests and estimation for two
independent samples; the median test, Wilcoxon Mann – Whitney test. The
Siegel – Tukey test, the squared rank test for variance, Smirnov test, Tests
for paired samples, Kruskal – Wallis test, Friedman test, multiple
comparison with the Friedman test, Cochran’s test for binary responses
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Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient, Kendall’s rank correlation
coefficient. Theil’s regression method
Recommended Books:
1. Conover, W.J. (1999), Practical Nonparametric Statistics, 3rd Edition,
John Wiley and Sons, New York
2. Gibbons, J.D. and Chakraborti, S. (1992), Nonparametric Statistical
Inference, Marcel Decker, New York.
3. Lehman, E.L. (1973), Nonparametric Statistical Methods, based on
Ranks, Holden-Day San Francesco
4. Maritz, J.S. (1995). Distribution-Free Statistical Methods, Chapman &
Hall London
5. Sprint, P. (2007). Applied Nonparametric Statistical Methods, 4th
edition, Chapman & Hall London
STAT- 302: Probability and Probability Distributions-II
Uniform, Lognormal, Exponential, Gamma, Laplace, Rayleigh, Weibell with

moments and cummulants; Distributions of functions of random variables:
Chi-square, t and F distributions, their derivations and properties. Central
limit and Chebyshev's theorems and other inequalities, Weak and Strong
Laws of large numbers and their applications, Order statistics, Distributions
of rth and sth order statistics, Bivariate Normal distribution.
Recommended Books:
1. Dekking, F. M., Kraaikamp, C., and Lopuhaae, H. P., and Meester,

L. E. (2005) A Modern Introduction to Probability and Statistics.
Springer.
2. Fridett, B. & Gray, L. (1997). “A Modern Approach to Probability
Theory” Birkhallser, Boston.
3. Freund, J. E. (1997). “Mathematical Statistics”, Prentice Hall, New
Jersey.
4. Haq, M. (1984). “Foundation of Probability and Statistics”, Tahir sons,
Urdu Bazar, Karachi.
5. Hirai, A.S. (1998), “A Course in Mathematical Statistics”, Ilmi Kutab
Khana, Lahore.
6. Hogg, R.M. and Craig, A.T. (1995), “Introduction to Mathematical
Statistics”. Prentice Hall, Engle wood Cliffs, New Jersey.
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7. Khan, M. K., (1996). “Probability with Applications”, Maktiba Ilmi,
Lahore.
8. Mood, A.M, Graybill, F.A. and Boss, D.C. (1997), “Introduction to the
Theory of Statistics”, McGraw-Hill, New York.
9. Stirzaker, D. (1999). “Probability and Random Variables”. Cambridge
10. Stuart, A. and Ord, J .K. Kendall’s (1998), “Advanced Theory of
Statistics”, Vol. I, Charles Griffin, London.
STAT- 304: Sampling Techniques-II

Cluster Sampling, Sub sampling, PPS-Sampling, Double Sampling,
Multistage and Multiphase sampling, Thomson Hurwitz estimator,
Comparison of different sample designs; non-response, their sources and
bias, Randomized response, Critical study of National sample surveys
conducted in Pakistan: Census of Agriculture Pakistan, Pakistan
Demographic Survey (PDS) and National Population and Housing Census
Note: Practical’s of this course shall include visits of the students to

various national statistical organizations and a report submitted to this
effect.
Recommended Books:
1. Brewer, K. R. & Hanif, M. (1983). Sampling with Unequal

Probabilities. Lecture Notes in Statistics Series, No. 15, Springer
Verlag.
2. Bethelem, J. (2009) Applied Survey Methods: A Statistical
Perspective. Wiley.
3. Chambers, R. L., and Skimmer, C. J. (2003) Analysis of Survey
Data. Wiley.
4. Chaudhary, A., and Stemger, H. (2005), Survey sampling theory and
methods. Chapman & Hall.
5. Cochran, W.G. (1977), “Sampling Techniques”, John Wiley and
Sons, 3rd ed, New York.
6. Des Raj, (1971), Design of Sample Survey. McGraw-Hill, New York.
7. Des Raj & Chandhok, P. (1998), “Sample Survey Theory”. Narosa
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8. Ferguson, T.S. (1996), “A Course in Large Sample Theory”,
Chapman & Hall, London.
9. Hansen, M. H., Hurwitz, W. N. & Madow, W.G. (1952).
10. Kish, L. (1992), “Survey Sampling”, John Wiley, New York.
11. Singh, R. and Singh N, (1996), “Elements of Survey Sampling”,
Kulwar, Dodrecht.
Press.
Press.
14. Various publications of Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS).
15. Hansen, M. H., Hurwitz, W. N., and Madow, W. G. (1993) Sampling
Survey Methods and Theory, Vol. 1 and II, Wiley.
STAT- 308: Econometrics

Introduction to econometrics, Problems of autocorrelation, multicollinearity,
heteroscedasticity and their solution; Ridge regression, Lagged variables,
Dummy variables, Errors in Variables, Instrumental variables, System of
simultaneous linear equations, Identification-Estimation method, indirect
and two-stage least squares methods, restricted least squares. Test of
identifying restrictions; Estimation with stochastic regressor, generalized
least squares estimators.
Recommended Books:
1. Baltagi, B. H. (1999). “Econometrics”, 2nd Edition, Springer Varlog.

2. Draper, N.R. and Smith, H. (2004). “Applied Regression Analysis”,
John Wiley, New York.
3. Gujrati, D. (2004). “Basic Econometrics”, John Wiley, New York.
4. Guttmann, I. (1980); “Linear Models: An Introduction”, John Wiley,
New York.
5. Johnston, J. and Di. Nardo, J., (1997). “Econometric Method”, 4th
Edition, McGraw Hill, New York.
6. Koutsoyiannis, A. (1980), “Theory of Econometrics”, Macmillan.
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7. Montgomery, D.C., and Peck E.A. (1992). “Introduction to Linear
Regression Analysis” , 2nd Edition. John Wiley and sons Inc. New
York
8. Wonnacot, T.H. and Wonnacot R.J. (1998). “Econometrics”, John
Wiley, New York
STAT- 306: Design and Analysis of Experiments-II

Factorial Experiments: 2k, 3k series and mixed level factorial experiments
and their analyses.
Confounding in factorial experiments, Complete and partial confounding,
Confounding in Fractional replications. Split-plot, split-split plot, strip plot
and nested designs. Missing observations in Split plot design. Response
surface designs.
Incomplete block designs: BIBD - Lattice designs, lattice square and
Youden squares, PBIBD with recovery of intra-block information.
Recommended Books:
1. Boniface, D.R. (1995). Experimental Design & Statistical Methods,

Chapman & Hall.
2. Clarke, G.M. (1994). “Statistics & Experimental Design”. Edward
Arnold.
3. Clarke, G.M., and Kempton, R.E. (1997), “Introduction to the Design
& Analysis of Experiments”, Edward Arnold.
4. Das, M.N.and Giri, N.C, (1986). “Design and Analysis of
Experiments”, John Wiley, New York.
5. Gomez, K.A., and Gomez, A.A. (1984). “Statistical Procedures for
Agricultural Research”, 2nd Edition, John Wiley, New York.
6. Giesbrecht, F. G., Gompertz, M. L. (2004) Planning, Construction,
and Statistical Analysis of Comparative Experiments. Wiley.
7. Harold, R. L (1992). “Analysis of Variance in Experimental Design”.
Springer Verlag:
8. Hicks, C.R. (1982). “Fundamental Concepts in Design and Analysis
of Experiments”; Saunders
9. Maxwell, S.E. and Delaney, H.D. (1990). Designing Experiments and
Analysis of Data. A Model Comparison Perspective. Belmont and
Wadeson.
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10. Mead, R., Gilmour, S., and Mead, A. (1990) Statistical Principles for
the design of experiments: Applications to real experiments.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
11. Montgomery, D.C. (2000). “Design and Analysis of Experiments”,
John Wiley, New York
12. Myers, R.H. and Montgomery, D.C. (1995). “Response Surface
Methodology; Process & Product Optimization Using Design”, John
Wiley
13. Steel, G. D., Terrie, and Dickey A. (1997). “Principles and Procedures
of Statistics: A Biometrical Approach” 3rd Edition, McGraw-Hill, New
York
STAT- 311: Population Studies

Basic concepts of demography, Sources of demographic data: The
population and housing census, Registration of vital events. Demographic
surveys, Components of population growth, composition of population and
vital events, Types and sources of errors, Data quality testing procedures,
testing the accuracy of age and sex distribution, Fertility and mortality
measures, Estimation from incomplete Data
Construction of complete and abridged life tables, Different types of life
tables, Graphs of lx, qx and ex, Description and uses of life table columns.
Stationary population models, Population estimates and projections, Inter-
censual estimates, Population projections through various methods.
Theory of demographic transition, Stable and stationary population models,
their applications and uses, Malthusian and post Malthusian theories of
growth, Consequences of world population growth & population explosion;
State of Population in Pakistan, Development of demographic profile in
Pakistan, Recent demographic parameters. Current and future
demographic activities in Pakistan
Recommended Books
1. Bogue, D.J. Arriagu, E.E., Anderson, D.L. (1993), “Readings in

Population Research Methodology”, Vol. I-VIII, United Nations Fund;
Social Development Centre, Chicago.
2. Hinde, A., (1998). “Demographic Method”, Arnold New York.
3. Impagliazo, J. (1993), Deterministic Aspects of Mathematical
Demography, Springer Verlag New York.
4. Jay Weinstein, Vijayan, K. Pillai, (2001) “Demography: The Science of
Population”. Allyn & Bacon.1.
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5. Keyfitz, N. (1983) “Applied Mathematical Demography”, Springer
Verlag N.Y.
6. Palmore, J.A; Gardner, R.W. (1994), “Measuring Mortality Increase”;
East West Centre, Honolulu.
7. Pollard, A.H., Yousaf, F & Pollard, G.M. (1982), “Demographic
Techniques”, Pergamon Press, Sydney.
8. Rukanuddin A.R. and Farooqi, M.N.I.., (1988), “The State of
Population in Pakistan – 1987”, NIPS, Islamabad.
9. Govt. of Pakistan (1998), National, Provincial and District census
reports and other supplementary reports with respect to 1998
census; PCO, Islamabad.
10. Pakistan Demographic Survey (2007), Govt. of Pakistan.
11. Publications of population census organizations.
12. United Nations (1990), “World Population Monitoring 1989”, UNFPA.
13. United Nations (1998), “World Population Assessment”, UNFPA; New
York.
14. United Nations (1996), “Added years of Life in Asia”, ESCAP; U.N.,
Thailand.
15. Haupt, A., Kane, T. T., and Haub, C. (2011) PRB’s Population
Handbook.
STAT- 401: Statistical Inference-I

Estimation of Parameters, Properties of Estimators: unbiasedness,
consistency, sufficiency, efficiency, Invariance, completeness. Cramer-Rao
inequality, Rao-Blackwell and Lehmann - Scheffe Theorems, Methods of
Estimation: Moments, Maximum likelihood, least-squares, minimum Chi-
square and Bayes’ method.
Recommended Books:
1. Bickel, P.J., and Docksum, K.A. (2005), Mathematical Statistics, Vol
I, Prentice Hall, N.J., 2nd ed.
2. Hogg, R.V. and Craig, A.T. (1996). “Introduction to Mathematical
Statistics”. Prentice Hall, New Jersey.
3. Lindgren, B.W. (1998). “Statistical Theory”. Chapman and Hall, New
York.
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4. Mood, A.M., Graybill, F.A. and Boss, D.C. (1997). “Introduction to the
Theory of Statistics”. McGraw Hill, New York.
5. Rao, C.R., (2009). “Linear Statistical Inference and its Applications”,
6. Rohatgi, V. K. (1984) Statistical Inference. Courier Dover
Publications.
7. Stuart, A. and Ord, J.K. (2009). Kendall’s’ “Advanced Theory of
Statistics” Vol. II. Charles Griffin, London.
8. Zacks, S. (1973), “Parametric Statistical Inference”, John Wiley, New
York.
STAT- 403: Multivariate Analysis

Introduction to Multivariate data analysis, Basics of matrix and vector
algebra, Geometry of vectors and sample, Expectation of sample mean,
covariance matrix, linear combination of variables, Generalized variance,
Multivariate Normal Distribution: Multivariate Normal density and its
properties, Sampling distribution of sample mean vector and covariance
matrix including their large sample behavior. Assessing normality,
transformation to make non-normal data to normal, Outliers, Hotelling’s T2
and likelihood ratio tests, Inferences about mean vector(s), Confidence
regions and simultaneous comparisons of component means, Multivariate
Linear Regression.
Principal components analysis, Factor Analysis, Discrimination and
Classification, Cluster Analysis
Recommended Books:
1. Afifi, A. A. and Clark Virginia (1984). Computer Aided Multivariate

Analysis, Lifetime learning publications, Belmont California.
2. Anderson, T.W. (2003). An Introduction to Multivariate Statistical
Analysis, John Wiley, New York.
3. Chatfield, C. and Collins, A.J. (1980). Introduction to Multivariate
Analysis, Chapman and Hall, London.
4. Everett, B.J. (1974). Cluster Analysis, McGraw-Hill, New York.
5. Flurry B. (1997) A First Course in Multivariate Statistics, Springer
Valerg, New York.
6. Hair, J.F., Anderson R.E., Jatham, R.L.and Black W.C., (1998).
Multivariate Data Analysis, 5th ed. Pearson Education, Re print 2005,
Asia edition.
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7. Johnson, R.A. and Wichern, D.W. Applied Multivariate Statistical
Analysis (6th ed.). Prentice Hall. London.
8. Joseph F. Hair Jr, William C. Black , Barry J. Babin ,Rolph E.
Anderson (2009). Multivariate Data Analysis (7th Edition), Pearson
education Asia Edition.
9. Manly, B.F.J. (1994). Multivariate Statistical Methods, A Primer 2nd
Edition, Chapman and Hall, London.
10. Mardia, K.V., Kent, J.T. and Bibby, J.M. (1979). Multivariate
Analysis, Academic Press, London.
11. Morrison. F. (1990). Multivariate Statistical Methods, McGraw-Hill,
New York.
12. Raykov, T. and Marcoulides, G. A. (2008) Introduction to Applied
Multivariate Analysis. Tylor & Francis.
13. Rechner, A. C. (2002) Methods of Multivariate Analysis. Wiley.
14. Sharma, S. (1996), Applied Multivariate Techniques, John Wiley and
Sons, New York.
15. Tabachnick, B.G and Fidell, L.S. (1996), Using Multivariate
Statistics, 3rd ed. Harper Collins College Publishers.
STAT- 402: Statistical Inference-II
Interval Estimation: Pivotal and other methods of finding confidence

interval, confidence interval in large samples, shortest confidence interval,
optimum confidence interval. Bayes’ Interval estimation
Tests of Hypotheses: Simple and composite hypotheses, critical regions.
Neyman-Pearson Lemma, power functions, uniformly most powerful tests.
Deriving tests of Hypothesis concerning parameters in normal, exponential,
gamma and uniform distributions, Randomized Tests, Unbiased tests,
Likelihood ratio tests and their asymptotic properties. Sequential Tests:
SPRT and its properties, A.S.N. and O.C. functions.
Recommended Books:
1. Hogg, R.V. and Craig, A.T. (1996). “Introduction to Mathematical

Statistics”. Prentice Hall, New Jersey.
2. Hirai, A. S. (2012) Estimation of Parameters. Ilmi Kitab Khana
Lahore.
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3. Lehman, E.L. (2008). “Testing Statistical Hypotheses”. Springler -
Volga, New York.
4. Lindgren, B.W. (1998). “Statistical Theory”. Chapman and Hall, New
York.
5. Mood, A.M. Gray Bill, F.A. and Boss, D.C. (1997). “Introduction to
the Theory of Statistics”. McGraw Hill, New York.
6. Rao, C.R., (2009). “Linear Statistical Inference and its Applications”,
7. Stuart, A and Ord, J.K. (2009). Kendall’s’ “Advanced Theory of
Statistics” Vol. II. Charles Griffin, London.
8. Welish, A. H. (2011) Aspects of Statistical Inference. Wiley.
9. Zacks, S. (1973), “Parametric Statistical Inference”, John Wiley, New
York.
STAT- 422: RESEARCH PROJECT / INTERNSHIP
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ELECTIVE COURSES
STAT- 405: Research Methodology

Definition of Research, Types of Research: Selection of Problem, Search
of References, Formation of Hypothesis and Procedure for its Testing,
Research Design, Planning of Experiments to Test Hypothesis Objectivity,
Principals of Experimental Design, Steps in Experimentation, Designing
Questionnaire, Collection of Data, Data Analysis to Determine, Functional
Relationship Between Variables, Levels of Significance, Interpretation of
Results, Components of Scientific Reports and Various Methods of Data,
Presentation, Preparation of Scientific Reports, Publication Procedures.
Qualitative Research: content analysis.
PRACTICAL: Survey of Literature on a Given Topic, Collection of

References from Various Sources. Collection of Primary and Secondary
Data, Arrangement of Primary and Secondary Data, Preparation of
Scientific Report for Publication, if Possible
Recommended Books:
1. Gimbaled, J. and W.S. Acuter (1988) “MLA handbook for Writers of
Research Papers”, McGraw the Modern Language Association of
America.
2. Hashmi, N. (1989) “Style Manual of Technical Writings”,
USAID/NARC, Islamabad.
STAT-406: Operations Research
History and definition of Operation Research, Introduction to linear

programming, Formulation of LP model, Graphical solution of two
variables, Standard Form, Simplex method, Duality theory; Sensitivity
Analysis, Primal and dual form, Transportation Problem, Assignment
problem. Network Analysis, PERT/CPM techniques, Queuing Models,
Inventory models, Dynamic programming and simulation models
Recommended Books:
1. Bazarra, N.M., Jarvis J.J. and Sherali, H.D. (1990) “Linear
Programming and Network Flows”, John Wiley & Sons, 2nd ed.
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2. Bronson, R. (1983). “Operations Research – Schaums’ Outline
Series” – McGraw-Hill.
3. Gupta, P.K. & Hira, D.S. (2008). “Operations Research”. (7th ed.) S.
Chand & Co., New Delhi.
4. Hillier, F.S. and Lieberman G. J. (2005). “Introduction to Operations
Research”, (8th ed.)Holden Day.
5. Ravindran, A., Philips, D.J and Silberg, J.J. (2007). “Operations
Research: Principles and Practice” (2nd ed.) John Wiley.
6. Taha, H.A. (2002) Operations Research. Macmillan. London
STAT- 407: Stochastic Processes

Introduction, Generating Functions, Laplace Transforms, Difference
Equations, Differential-Difference Equations, Introduction to Stochastic
Processes. The Random Walk in one and two Dimensions, The Classical
Gambler’s Ruin Problem, Expected Duration of the Game
Markov Chains: Definition. Higher Transition Probabilities, Classification of

States and Chains, Markov processes with Discrete State Space, Poisson
Process and its Generalization, Pure Birth and Death Processes, Markov
Processes with Discrete State Space (Continuous Time Markov Chains),
Markov Processes with Continuous State Space. Introduction to Brownian
motion
Recommended Books
1. Cox, D.R.and Miller H.D. (1984). “The Theory of Stochastic
Processes”, Chapman and Hall, London.
2. Grimmet G. and Stirzaker D. (2001): Probability and Random
Processes, Oxford University Press.
3. Hole, P.G., Port, S. and Stone, C.L. (1984). “An Introduction to
Stochastic Process”, John Wiley, New York.
4. Karlin, S.A. and Taylor H.M. (1984). “A first course in Stochastic
Process”, Academic Press London.
5. Medhi, J. (1982), “Stochastic Processes”, Wiley Eastern Ltd.
6. Ross, S. M. (2006). “Stochastic Process”, John Wiley, New York.
7. Srinivasin, S.K. and Mehta, K.M. (1988). “Stochastic Processes”.
Tata McGraw-Hill.
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STAT- 408: Reliability Theory
Basic concepts of reliability, Structural reliability, Life time distributions

(Failure models): Hazard rate; Gamma, Weibull, Gumball, Log-Normal and
Inverse Gaussian Distribution. Stochastic fatigue-rate models, Point and
interval estimation, Fatigue-life model
Testing reliability hypothesis, Monte-Carlo simulations, distribution-free and
Bayes’ methods in reliability, System reliability; series and parallel
systems, Failure models, (k-out-of-m) New-better-than used models.
Inferences for these models, Accelerated life testing
Recommended Books:
1. Achintya Haldar, Sankaran Mahadevan (2000). Reliability
Assessment Using Stochastic Finite Element Analysis”.
2. Crowder, M.J. (1994). “Statistical Analysis of Reliability Data”.
3. Gertsbakh, I.B. (1989). “Statistical Reliability Theory”. Marcel
Decker. New York.
4. Gertsbakh, I. Reliability theory : with applications to preventive
maintenance Publisher: New Delhi : Springer, 2009
5. Lawless, J.F. “Statistical Model and Methods for Lifetime Data”.(2nd
ed.)
6. Lee, J. Bain, Bain Bain, (1991). “Statistical Analysis of Reliability and
Life-Testing Models”.
7. Mann, N.R., Scheefer, R.E. and Singapoor walla, N.D. (1974).
Methods for Statistical Analysis of Reliability, John Wiley & Sons.
STAT- 409: Time Series Analysis

Time series analysis: concepts, Stochastic Process, Stationary Time-
Series, Exponential smoothing techniques, auto-correlation and auto-
covariance, estimation of auto-correlation function (ACF) and Partial
autocorrelation function (PACF) and standard errors, Periodogram,
spectral density functions, comparison with ACF, Linear stationary models:
Auto Regressive Moving Average (ARMA) and mixed models, Non-
stationary models, general ARIMA notation and models, minimum mean
square forecasting. ARIMA Seasonal Models
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Recommended Books:
1. Andy, P, West M. and Harrison, P. J. (1994). Applied Bayesian
Forecasting and Time Series Analysis, Chapman & Hall New York.
2. Bovas, A. and Johannes, L. (1983), Statistical Methods for
Forecasting, John Wiley. New York
3. Box, G.E.P. and Jenkins, G.M., and Reinsel G. C. (2008) Time
Series Analysis: Forecasting and Control, San Francisco.
4. Brock well P.J. and Davis R.A. (1991). Time Series Theory and
Methods, Springer Verlag New York.
5. Chatfield, C. (1996). The Analysis of Time Series: An Introduction,
Chapman and Hall, London.
6. Chatfield C. (2003): The Analysis of Time Series: An Introduction,
Taylor & Francis, NY, USA.
7. Cox, D. R., Hinckley D.V. and Nielsen O.E.B. (1996). Time Series
Models - In Econometrics, finances and other fields; Chapman &
Hall, London.
8. Diggle, P.J. (1990), Time Series: A Biostatistical Introduction,
Clarendon Press, Oxford.
9. Jonathan D. C. and Kung-Sik C. (2008): Time Series Analysis with
Applications in R, Springer, USA.
10. Hamilton J. D. (1994): Time Series Analysis, Princeton University
Press, UK.
11. Harvey, A.C. (1990). Forecasting Structural Time Series Models and
the Calamander, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
12. Peter J. B and Richard A. D (2002): Introduction to Time Series and
Forecasting, Second Edition, Springer, USA.
13. Priestley, M.B. (1981) Spectral Analysis and Time Series, Academic
Press, London.
STAT- 410: Decision Theory

The nature and concept of loss functions, parameters, decisions and
sample spaces, Risk and average loss, Admissibility and the class of
admissible decisions, Minimax principle and its application to simple
decision problems, linear and quadratic losses and their uses in problems
of estimation and testing hypotheses. Asymptotically minimax procedure,
Prior distributions and conjugate priors, Bayes’ decision procedure.
Admissibility of Bayes’ and minimax procedures. Game theory
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Recommended Books:
1. Berger, J. O. (1985). “Statistical Decision Theory & Bayesian
Analysis”, Springer Verlag.
2. Blackwell, D. and Graphic, M.A. (1966). “Theory of Games and
Statistical Decision”, John Wiley, New York.
STAT- 411: Robust Methods

Introduction to Robustness, Objective function, M-estimator of location, E-
estimator, R-estimator and W-estimator, Redescending M-estimator’s The
Breakdown point of Robust estimator Influence function. M-estimator for
scale, Outliers and influential observations, Outliers in Regression analysis
Recommended Books:
1. Hamper, T.R. Brochette, E.M. Rousseau, P.J. and Satchel, W.A.
(1986). “Robust Statistics”, “The approach Based on Influence
functions”, John Wiley New York.
2. Hosmer D. W. and Lemeshow S. (2008): Applied Survival Analysis,
Wiley Interscience, USA.
3. Huber, P.J. (1981). “Robust Statistics”, John Wiley, New York.
4. Olive D. J. (2007): Applied Robust Statistics, Southern Illinois
University Department of Mathematics.
5. Rousseau, P.J. and Leroy, A.M. (1987). “Robust Regression and
outlier detection”, John Wiley. New York.
STAT- 412: Official Statistics

Official Statistics, Statistical system and international standards, set up of
national statistical organization in Pakistan, its role in development of
Statistics, working and publications.
Sources of official Statistics, National Database Registration Authority
(NADRA) and its role, Economic Statistics producers, International
classification and standards
Use of Statistics in administration and planning Concepts and evaluation of
GDP, GNP, NNP, Balance of Trade and payments, Measurement of
Income Distribution, Prices and price mechanisms. Deflation and Inflation
of series, Industrial quantum index, National sample surveys and censuses
conducted in Pakistan.
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Note: Visit of major Statistical Organizations should be a part of the
course. Alternatively, the department may invite experts from various
statistical organizations.
Recommended Books:
1. Hansen M.H. (1980). “Progress and Problems in Survey Methods
and Theory”. IIIustrated by the work of U.S. Bureau of the Census,
U.S. Department of Commerce; A Monograph.
2. NIPA (1962) “Administrative uses of Statistics”, NIPA Res. Sr.No.2
Karachi.
3. Statistical Institute for Asia & Pacific SIAP (1984). “Training of
Trainers in Statistical Operations and Procedures” Part-I, II UNDP,
Tokyo.
4. Statistics Division (1979). “Retrospect, Perspective and Prospect”,
Islamabad.
5. Statistics Division, “Activity Report” (1988-89).Government of
Pakistan, Islamabad.
6. Various Publications of PBS, State Bank of Pakistan, Ministry of
Finance, etc.
7. Zarkovich S.S. (1966) “Quality of Statistical Data, Food and
Agricultural Organization”, The U.N. Rome.
8. Statistics Reorganization Act 2011
STAT- 413: Survival Analysis

Special features of Survival data: Patient time and study time, Survival
function and hazard function, Time dependent and censored survival data.
Nonparametric procedures: Estimation of Survival function, hazard
function, median and percentiles of Survival times. Confidence interval and
comparison of group; stratified and log-rank tests for trend, Modeling of
Survival data; Hazard function modeling; its tests and confidence interval,
The Weibull model for survival data, Exploratory data analysis and other
models, Sample size requirement for survival study, Use of software for
Survival analysis
Recommended Books:
1. Burkett, M. (1995). “Analyzing Survival Data from Clinical Trials and
Observational Studies”; John Wiley New York.
2. Collett, D. (1994). “Modeling Survival Data in Medical Research”.
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3. Cox, DR. and Oakes, D. (1984). “Analysis of Survival Data”;
Chapman & Hall London.
4. Eland Johnson, R. C. and Johnson N. L. (1989), “Survival Models &
Data Analysis”. John Wiley N.Y.
5. Lee, E.T. (1992). “Statistical Methods for Survival Data Analysis”;
John Wiley. N.Y.
6. Lee, E.T. (1997). “Applied Survival Analysis”, John Wiley and Sons,
New York.
7. Muller, R.G. and Xian Zhou (1996). “Survival Analysis with long-term
Survivors”, John Wiley. New York.
8. Parmer M.K.B. & Macklin D. (1995). “Survival Analysis: A Practical
Approach”; John Wiley New York.
9. Turkey, J. (1987). “Exploratory Data Analysis”, John Wiley, New
York.
STAT- 414: Biostatistics

Definition of Biostatistics, type of variables and observations in biological,
health and medical sciences, Uniqueness in terms of behaviour of
variables their domain, and units; Categorical, numerical and censored
data. Populations, Target populations and sampled Population: Role of
sampling in biostatistics, Size of samples of various types of studies,
Proportions, rates and ratios; incidence, prevalence and odds.
Distributional behaviour of biological variables (Binomial, Poisson and
Normal), Role of transformation for analysis of biological variables, Probit
and Logit transformations and their analysis, p values, its importance and
role, Confidence Interval in simple and composite hypothesis testing
Recommended Books:
1. Alfassi Z. B., Boger, Z. and Ronen, Y. (2005): Statistical Treatment
of Analytical Data, Blackwell Science, USA.
2. Altman, G. (1991). “Practical Statistics for Medical Research”.
3. Ahmad, M., Ahmad, A., and Hanif, M. (2004) Manual of Statistics for
Medical Sciences. ISOSS Publications Lahore.
4. Daniel, W.W. (2010). “Biostatistics: A Foundation for the Health
Sciences”, 6th Edition, John Wiley, New York.
5. Diggle, J. P., Liang, Kung-Yee and Zeger, S. L. (1996). “Analysis of
Longitudinal Data”, Clarendon Press, Oxford.
6. Dunn, G. and Everit, B. (1995). “Clinical Biostatistics”, Edward
Arnold, London.
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7. Hanif M., Munir A. and Aftab M. A. (2006): Biostatistics for Health
Students with Manual on Software Applications, ISOSS Publication.
8. Harris, E. K. and Albert, A. (1991). “Survivorship Analysis for Clinical
Studies”. Marcel Decker, New York.
9. Lawless, J. F. (1982). Statistical Models and Methods for Life Time
Data. John Wiley, New York.
10. Lee, E.T. (1992). “Statistical Methods for Survival Data Analysis”, 2nd
Edition, John Wiley, New York.
11. Rosner, B. (2006). “Fundamentals of Biostatistics”, Duxbury Press.
12. Shoukri, M. M. & Pause, C. A. (1999). “Statistical Methods for Health
Sciences”. 2nd Edition, CRC Press, Florida.
13. Zar, J. (2000). “Biostatistical Analysis”, 5th Edition, John Wiley and
Sons.
14. Zolman, J.F. (1993). “Biostatistics: Experimental Design and
Statistical Inference”, Oxford University Press, New York.
STAT- 415: Data Mining

Introduction to databases including simple and relational databases, data
warehouses, Review of classification methods from multivariate analysis;
classification, decision trees: classification and regression trees. Clustering
methods from both statistical and data mining viewpoints; vector
quantization. Unsupervised learning from univariate and multivariate data;
dimension reduction and feature selection. Supervised learning from
moderate to high dimensional input spaces; artificial neural networks and
extensions of regression models, regression trees. Association rules and
prediction; applications to electronic commerce
Recommended Books
1. Benson and Smith, S.J. (1997). “Data Warehousing, Data Mining’,

and OLAP. McGraw-Hill.
2. Bramer M (2007): Principles of Data Mining. Springer-Verlag London
Limited UK.
3. Breiman, L. Friedman, J.H. Olshen, R.A. and Stone, C.J. (1984).
“Classification and Regression Trees” Wadsworth and Brooks/Cole.
4. Han, J., Kamber, J. Pei, J., and Burlington, M. A. (2012) Data
mining: concepts and techniques. Haryana, India.
5. Han, J. and Camber, M. (2000). Data Mining; “Concepts and
Techniques”. Morgan Gaufmann.
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6. Mitchell, T.M. (1997). “Machine Learning”. McGraw-Hill.
7. Rao C. R., Wegman E. J. & Solka J. L (2005): Handbook of
Statistics, Vol. 24: Data mining and data visualization. Elsevier B.V.,
North Holland.
8. Ripley, B.D. (1996). “Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks”.
Cambridge University Press.
9. Suh, S. C. (2012) Practical applications of data mining. Suh.
Publisher
10. Tan P., Steinbach M. & Kumar V. (2006): Introduction to Data
Mining. Addison Wesley, New York.
STAT- 416: Actuarial Statistics-I

Introduction to actuarial Statistics, Utility theory, insurance and utility
theory, models for individual claims and their sums, survival function,
curate future lifetime, force of mortality
Life table and its relation with survival function, examples, assumptions for
fractional ages, some analytical laws of mortality, select and ultimate
tables.
Multiple life functions, joint life and last survivor status, insurance and
annuity benefits through multiple life functions, evaluation for special
mortality laws
Multiple decrement models, deterministic and random survivorship groups,
associated single decrement tables, central rates of multiple decrement,
net single premiums and their numerical evaluations.
Distribution of aggregate claims, compound Poisson distribution and its
applications
Recommended Books:
1. Bowers, N.L. Gerber, H.U. Hickman, J.C. Jones, D.A. and Nesbitt, C.J.
(1997). “Actuarial Mathematics”, Society of Actuarial, Ithaca, Illinois,
U.S.A
2. Dkkson, M. R., Hardy, H, Wates (2009) Actuarial Mathematics for Life
Contingent Risks. Cambridge.
3. Neill, A. (1977). “Life Contingencies”, Heineman.
4. Polard, B., John, H. (1980) Analysis of Mortality and Actuarial
Statistics. Faculty & Institute of Actuarial Sciences U.K.
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5. Spurgeon, E.T. (1972), “Life Contingencies”, Cambridge University
Press.
STAT- 417: Actuarial Statistics-II

Principles of compound interest: Nominal and effective rates of interest and
discount, force of interest and discount, compound interest, accumulation
factor, continuous compounding.
Life insurance: Insurance payable at the moment of death and at the end
of the year of death-level benefit insurance, endowment insurance,
deferred insurance and varying benefit insurance, recursions, commutation
functions.
Life annuities: Single payment, continuous life annuities, discrete life
annuities, life annuities with monthly payments, commutation functions,
varying annuities, recursions, complete annuities-immediate and
apportionable annuities-due.
Net premiums: Continuous and discrete premiums, true monthly payment
premiums, apportionable premiums, commutation functions, accumulation
type benefits.
Payment premiums, apportionable premiums, commutation functions,
accumulation type benefits.
Net premium reserves : Continuous and discrete net premium reserve,
reserves on a semi-continuous basis, reserves based on true monthly
premiums, reserves on an apportionable or discounted continuous basis,
reserves at fractional durations, allocations of loss to policy years,
recursive formulas and differential equations for reserves, commutation
functions.
Some practical considerations: Premiums that include expenses-general
expenses types of expenses, per policy expenses.
Claim amount distributions, approximating the individual model, stop-loss
insurance.
Recommended Books:
1. Borowiak, D. S., Shapiro, A. F. (2003) Financial and Actuarial

Statistics: An Introduction. CRC Press.
2. Bowers, N.L. Gerber, H.U. Hickman, J.C. Jones, D.A. and Nesbitt,
C.J. (1986) “Actuarial Mathematics”, Society of Actuaries, Ithaca,
Illinois, U.S.A. Second Edition (1997).
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3. Corazza, M. and Claudio, P. (2010) Mathematical and Statistical
Methods for Actuarial Sciences and Finance. Springer.
4. Neill, A. (1977). “Life Contingencies”, Heinemann.
5. Spurgeon, E.T. (1972). “Life Contingencies”, Cambridge University
Press.
STAT- 418: Mathematical Modeling and Simulation

Monte Carlo methods: Different methods of generating random numbers,
generation of random variables, acceptance and rejection techniques from
various distributions. Comparison of algorithms to generate random
variables, generating random variables from failure rates,
Generation from multinomial distribution / Monte Carlo integration, Gibbs
sampling and other resampling techniques, Variance reduction techniques:
importance sampling for integration, control variates and antithetic
variables.
Recommended Books:
1. Bernard P Autor Zeigler, Herbert Praehofer, Tag Gon Kim (2000)

Theory of Modeling and Simulation
2. Daniel P. M, Maynard T. (2006): Mathematical Modeling and
Computer Simulation, Thomson Brooks/Cole
3. Fishman, G.S. (1996). Monte Carlo: “Concepts, Algorithms, and
Applications”, (Springer).
4. Ripley, B.D. (1987) “Stochastic Simulations” ( Wiley)
5. Ross, S.M. (2002). “Simulation” ( Third Edition) (Academic)

6. Rubinstein, R.Y. (1981). “Simulation and the Monte Carlo Method”,
(Wiley).
7. Velten, K. (2009): Mathematical modeling and simulation, Wiley
VCH, Germany
STAT- 419: Categorical Data Analysis

A brief history of categorical data analysis, Principles of likelihood-based
inference, Sampling distributions for contingency tables, Measures of
association for 2x2 tables, Testing independence in contingency tables,
Exact inference for two-way tables, Inferences for three-way tables.
Introduction to generalized linear models, Logistic regression, Model
building, Alternative link functions for binary outcome, Diagnostics, Exact
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methods and conditional logistic regression, Methods for analyzing
matched case-control data, Multinomial response models for nominal data,
Multinomial response models for ordinal data.
Poisson regression model, Poisson regression for rates, Log linear models
for contingency tables
Recommended Books:
1. Alan Agresti (2012) Categorical Data Analysis (3rd edition). Wiley.

2. Alan Agresti (2007) An Introduction to Categorical Data Analysis (2nd
edition). John Wiley & Sons.
3. Chap T. Le (1998) Applied Categorical Data Analysis. Wiley
4. Collett D. (2003) Modeling Binary Data. Champman and Hall/CRC.
5. Hosmer D. W., Lemeshow S. (2004) Applied Logistic Regression.
John Wiley & Sons.
6. Lloyd C. J. (1999) Statistical Analysis of Categorical Data. Willey
7. Powers D. A., and Yu Xie (2008) Statistical Methods for Categorical
data analysis (2nd edition). Emerald Group publishing.
8. Ronald C. (1997) Log-linear models and logistic regression (2nd
edition). Springer.
9. Simonoff J. S. (2003) Analyzing Categorical Data. Springer
STAT- 422: Bayesian Inference

Conditional Probability, Prior information, Prior distributions, Methods of
elicitation of prior distributions, Posterior distributions: The posterior
means, medians (Bayes estimators under loss functions) and variances of
univariate and bivariate posterior distributions, Non-informative priors:
Methods of elicitation of non-informative priors, Bayesian Hypotheses
Testing: Bayes factor; The highest density region; Posterior probability of
the hypothesis.
Recommended Books:
1. Berger, J.O., Statistical Decision Theory and Bayesian Analysis (2 nd
Ed.), New York, Springer Verlag (1985).
2. Bernardo, J. M. & Smith, A.F.M., Bayesian Theory, John Wiley, New
York (1994).
3. Box, G.E. P & Tiao, G. C. Bayesian Inference in Statistical Analysis,
Reading Addison-Wesley (1973).
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4. Introduction to Bayesian Statistics by William M. Bolstad (2004)
5. Lee, P.M. Bayesian Statistics, an Introduction, Oxford University
Press, New York (1991).
6. O.Hagan A. Kendall’s Advanced Theory of Statistics (Vol.2B),
Bayesian Inference, Cambridge, The University Press (1994).
STAT- 423: Statistical Quality Control

Concept of quality control and Quality assurance, Total Quality
Management (TQM) Statistical Methods in Quality Improvement, Statistical
Process Control (SPC), Statistical Quality Control (SQC), Shewhart control
charts: philosophy, construction, advantages. CUSUM and moving
average control charts: Average Run Length (ARL); Fast Initial Response
(FIR). ARL and FIR for control charts
Process capability analysis: Process improvements using design of
experiments.
Acceptance sampling for attributes and variables, Acceptance sampling
plans: Single, double, and multiple sampling plans with their O.C. curves,
Military Standard 501 Sampling Plans. Introduction to ISO- 9000 and ISO-
14000 series
Recommended Books:
1. Banks, J. (1989). “Principles of Quality Control”. John Wiley, New

York.
2. Feigenbaum, A.V. (1986). “Total Quality Control”. McGraw-Hill, New
York.
3. Juran, J.M. and Guyana, F.K. (1988). “Juan’s Quality Control
Handbook”. McGraw Hill New York.
4. Miltag H. J. and Rinne H. (1993). “Statistical Methods of Quality
Assurance”, Chapman & Hall, London.
5. Montgomery, D.C. (2013). “Introduction to Statistical Quality
Control”. McGraw Hill, New York.
6. Nelson, W. (1990). “Accelerated Testing”. John Wiley, New York.
7. Ryan, T.P. (1989). “Statistical Methods for Quality Improvement”.
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Recommendations
The following recommendations were made by the committee to enhance
the teaching and learning of Statistics:
1. Departments of Statistics in the universities should make efforts to

interact with national and international statistical organizations such
as PBS, industry and other users of statistics in the public and
private sector.
2. Internship should be funded by the HEC and/or other funding
agencies, and offered to the students.
3. All universities’ departments should develop and maintain an
internship / career services department to facilitate the internship
students of Statistics.
4. Most of the courses may be taught using statistical packages.
5. Since there is a shortage of highly qualified statisticians in Pakistan.
Therefore, allocating extra quota for statistics students to pursue
higher education is needed.
6. The committee strongly recommends the creation of “Department of
Biostatistics” for teaching and research guidance at all medical
colleges/universities and the posts of biostatisticians in all
hospitals/other institutions.
7. Practicum conducted during the course work should be in the form of
case studies. The data published by different organizations may be
used in such case studies.
8. A course on Statistics may be added in curriculum of FSc (Pre-
Medical & Pre-Eng.) to prepare students for their professional
education.
9. The department of Statistics in each university may establish a
statistics consultancy center to attract potential researchers. HEC
should provide technical and financial support to these research
cells.
10. Refresher courses for the faculty should be regularly arranged by the
HEC.
11. HEC should support universities for the development of computer
labs, departmental libraries, students and staff participation in
seminars, workshops, and conferences.
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12. The department websites should be updated on a regular basis so
that research interests of the faculty may become public.
13. PGD (Post Graduate Diploma) / Short courses should be offered by
the universities/department of Statistics to the non-statisticians.
14. Professional ethics should be an integral part of the training of
students at both the undergraduate and graduate level.
15. Since 4 year BS Programme is equivalent to old M.Sc. Programme
in Statistics, therefore, the relevant recruitment rules for the post of
BPS-17 may be amended by the concerned departments (FPSC,
Establishment Division) and B.S. (Four year Programme) may be
added in the eligibility criteria for the posts.
16. The department of Statistics in each university should make concrete
efforts for establishing university-industry linkages for MS level
research.
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Annexure “A”
COMPULSORY COURSES IN ENGLISH FOR BS
(4 YEAR) IN BASIC & SOCIAL SCIENCES
English I (Functional English)

Objectives: Enhance language skills and develop critical thinking.
Course Contents
Basics of Grammar
Parts of speech and use of articles
Sentence structure, active and passive voice
Practice in unified sentence
Analysis of phrase, clause and sentence structure
Transitive and intransitive verbs
Punctuation and spelling
Comprehension
Answers to questions on a given text
Discussion
General topics and every-day conversation (topics for discussion
to be at the discretion of the teacher keeping in view the level of
students)
Listening
To be improved by showing documentaries/films carefully
selected by subject teachers
Translation skills
Urdu to English
Paragraph writing
Topics to be chosen at the discretion of the teacher
Presentation skills
Introduction
Note: Extensive reading is required for vocabulary building
Recommended Books:
1. Functional English
a) Grammar
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1. Practical English Grammar by A.J. Thomson and A.V. Martinet.
Exercises 1, third edition, Oxford University Press, 1997. ISBN
0194313492
2. Practical English Grammar by A.J. Thomson and A.V. Martinet.
Exercises 2, third edition, Oxford University Press, 1997. ISBN
0194313506
b) Writing
1. Writing Intermediate by Marie-Christine Boutin, Suzanne Brinand
and Francoise Grellet., Oxford Supplementary Skills, Fourth
Impression, 1993. ISBN 0 19 435405 7 Pages 20-27 and 35-41.
c) Reading/Comprehension
1. Reading Upper Intermediate Brain Tomlinson and Rod Ellis,
Oxford Supplementary Skills, Third Impression, 1992. ISBN 0 19
453402 2
d) Speaking
English II (Communication Skills)

Objectives: Enable the students to meet their real life communication
needs.
Course Contents
Paragraph writing
Practice in writing a good, unified and coherent paragraph
Essay writing
Introduction
CV and job application
Translation skills
Urdu to English
Study skills
Skimming and scanning, intensive and extensive, and speed
reading, summary and précis writing and comprehension
Academic skills
Letter/memo writing, minutes of meetings, use of library and
internet
Presentation skills
Personality development (emphasis on content, style and
pronunciation)
Note: documentaries to be shown for discussion and review
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Recommended Books:
Communication Skills
a) Grammar
1. Practical English Grammar by A.J. Thomson and A.V.
Martinet, Exercises 2, third edition, Oxford University Press,
1986. ISBN 0 19 431350 6
b) Writing
1. Writing. Intermediate by Marie-Chrisitine Boutin, Suzanne
Brinand and Francoise Grellet. Oxford Supplementary Skills.
Fourth Impression 1993. ISBN 019 435405 7 Pages 45-53
(note taking).
2. Writing.Upper-Intermediate by Rob Nolasco. Oxford
Supplementary Skills. Fourth Impression 1992. ISBN 0 19
435406 5 (particularly good for writing memos, introduction to
presentations, descriptive and argumentative writing).
c) Reading
1. Reading Advanced Brian Tomlinson and Rod Ellis, Oxford
Supplementary Skills, Third Impression, 1991. ISBN 0 19
453403 0
2. Reading and Study Skills by John Langan
3. Study Skills by Richard Yorky.
English III (Technical Writing and Presentation Skills)
Objectives: Enhance language skills and develop critical thinking
Course Contents
Presentation skills
Essay writing
Descriptive, narrative, discursive, argumentative
Academic writing
How to write a proposal for research paper/term paper
How to write a research paper/term paper (emphasis on style,
content, language, form, clarity, consistency)
Technical Report writing
Progress report writing
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Note: Extensive reading is required for vocabulary building
Recommended Books:
Technical Writing and Presentation Skills
a) Essay Writing and Academic Writing

1. Writing Advanced by Ron White, Oxford Supplementary Skills.
Third Impression 1992, ISBN 0 19 435407 3 (particularly
suitable for discursive, descriptive, argumentative and report
writing)
2. College Writing Skills by John Langan. McGraw-Hill Higher
Education. 2004.
3. Patterns of College Writing (4th edition) by Laurie G. Kirszner
and Stephen R. Mandell. St. Martin’s Press.
b) Presentation Skills
c) Reading
The Mercury Reader, a Custom Publication, Compiled by
norther, Illinois University, General Editors: Janice Neulib;
Kathleen Shine Cain; Stephen Ruffus and Maurice Scharton.
(A reader which will give students exposure to the best of
twentieth century literature, without taxing the taste of
engineering students)
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Annexure “B”
Pakistan Studies (Compulsory)
Introduction/Objectives
 Develop vision of historical perspective, government, politics,
contemporary Pakistan, ideological background of Pakistan.
 Study the process of governance, national development, issues
arising in the modern age and posing challenges to Pakistan.
Course Outline
1. Historical Perspective
a. Ideological rationale with special reference to Sir Syed Ahmed
Khan, Allama Muhammad Iqbal and Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali
Jinnah.
b. Factors leading to Muslim separatism
c. People and Land
i. Indus Civilization
ii. Muslim advent
iii. Location and geo-physical features.
2. Government and Politics in Pakistan
Political and constitutional phases:
a. 1947-58
b. 1958-71
c. 1971-77
d. 1977-88
e. 1988-99
f. 1999 onward
3. Contemporary Pakistan
a. Economic institutions and issues
b. Society and social structure
c. Ethnicity
d. Foreign policy of Pakistan and challenges
e. Futuristic outlook of Pakistan
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Recommended Books:
1. Burki, Shahid Javed. State & Society in Pakistan, The Macmillan
Press Ltd 1980.
2. Akbar, S. Zaidi. Issue in Pakistan’s Economy. Karachi: Oxford
University Press, 2000.
3. S.M. Burke and Lawrence Ziring. Pakistan’s Foreign policy: An
Historical analysis. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 1993.
4. Mehmood, Safdar. Pakistan Political Roots & Development. Lahore,
1994.
5. Wilcox, Wayne. The Emergence of Bangladesh., Washington:
American Enterprise, Institute of Public Policy Research, 1972.
6. Mehmood, Safdar. Pakistan Kayyun Toota, Lahore: Idara-e-Saqafat-
e-Islamia, Club Road, nd.
7. Amin, Tahir. Ethno - National Movement in Pakistan, Islamabad:
Institute of Policy Studies, Islamabad.
8. Ziring, Lawrence. Enigma of Political Development. Kent England:
WmDawson & sons Ltd, 1980.
9. Zahid, Ansar. History & Culture of Sindh. Karachi: Royal Book
Company, 1980.
10. Afzal, M. Rafique. Political Parties in Pakistan, Vol. I, II & III.
Islamabad: National Institute of Historical and cultural Research,
1998.
11. Sayeed, Khalid Bin. The Political System of Pakistan. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1967.
12. Aziz, K.K. Party, Politics in Pakistan, Islamabad: National
Commission on Historical and Cultural Research, 1976.
13. Muhammad Waseem, Pakistan under Martial Law, Lahore:
Vanguard, 1987.
14. Haq, Noor ul. Making of Pakistan: The Military Perspective.
Islamabad: National Commission on Historical and Cultural
Research, 1993.
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Annexure “C”
ISLAMIC STUDIES
(Compulsory)
Objectives:
This course is aimed at:
1 To provide Basic information about Islamic Studies
2 To enhance understanding of the students regarding Islamic
Civilization
3 To improve Students skill to perform prayers and other worships
4 To enhance the skill of the students for understanding of issues related
to faith and religious life.
Detail of Courses
Introduction to Quranic Studies
1) Basic Concepts of Quran
2) History of Quran
3) Uloom-ul -Quran
Study of Selected Text of Holly Quran

1) Verses of Surah Al-Baqra Related to Faith(Verse No-284-286)
2) Verses of Surah Al-Hujrat Related to Adab Al-Nabi
(Verse No-1-18)
3) Verses of Surah Al-Mumanoon Related to Characteristics of
faithful (Verse No-1-11)
4) Verses of Surah al-Furqan Related to Social Ethics (Verse No.63-
77)
5) Verses of Surah Al-Inam Related to Ihkam(Verse No-152-154)
Study of Selected Text of Holly Quran
1) Verses of Surah Al-Ihzab Related to Adab al-Nabi (Verse

No.6,21,40,56,57,58.)
2) Verses of Surah Al-Hashar (18,19,20) Related to thinking, Day of
Judgment
3) Verses of Surah Al-Saf Related to Tafakar,Tadabar (Verse No-
1,14)
Seerat of Holy Prophet (S.A.W) I
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1) Life of Muhammad Bin Abdullah ( Before Prophet Hood)
2) Life of Holy Prophet (S.A.W) in Makkah
3) Important Lessons Derived from the life of Holy Prophet in Makkah
Seerat of Holy Prophet (S.A.W) II

1) Life of Holy Prophet (S.A.W) in Madina
2) Important Events of Life Holy Prophet in Madina
3) Important Lessons Derived from the life of Holy Prophet in Madina
Introduction to Sunnah
1) Basic Concepts of Hadith
2) History of Hadith
3) Kinds of Hadith
4) Uloom –ul-Hadith
5) Sunnah & Hadith
6) Legal Position of Sunnah
Selected Study from Text of Hadith

Introduction to Islamic Law & Jurisprudence
1) Basic Concepts of Islamic Law & Jurisprudence
2) History & Importance of Islamic Law & Jurisprudence
3) Sources of Islamic Law & Jurisprudence
4) Nature of Differences in Islamic Law
5) Islam and Sectarianism
Islamic Culture & Civilization

1) Basic Concepts of Islamic Culture & Civilization
2) Historical Development of Islamic Culture & Civilization
3) Characteristics of Islamic Culture & Civilization
4) Islamic Culture & Civilization and Contemporary Issues
Islam & Science
1) Basic Concepts of Islam & Science
2) Contributions of Muslims in the Development of Science
3) Quran & Science
Islamic Economic System

1) Basic Concepts of Islamic Economic System
2) Means of Distribution of wealth in Islamic Economics
3) Islamic Concept of Riba
4) Islamic Ways of Trade & Commerce
Political System of Islam
1) Basic Concepts of Islamic Political System
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2) Islamic Concept of Sovereignty
3) Basic Institutions of Govt. in Islam
Islamic History
1) Period of Khlaft-E-Rashida
2) Period of Ummayyads
3) Period of Abbasids
Social System of Islam

1) Basic Concepts Of Social System Of Islam
2) Elements Of Family
3) Ethical Values Of Islam
Recommended Books:
1) Hameed ullah Muhammad, “Emergence of Islam” , IRI, Islamabad
2) Hameed ullah Muhammad, “Muslim Conduct of State”
3) Hameed ullah Muhammad, ‘Introduction to Islam
4) Mulana Muhammad Yousaf Islahi,”
5) Hussain Hamid Hassan, “An Introduction to the Study of Islamic
Law” leaf Publication Islamabad, Pakistan.
6) Ahmad Hasan, “Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence” Islamic
Research
Institute, International Islamic University, Islamabad (1993)
7) Mir Waliullah, “Muslim Jurisprudence and the Quranic Law of
Crimes”
Islamic Book Service (1982)
8) H.S. Bhatia, “Studies in Islamic Law, Religion and Society” Deep &
Deep Publications New Delhi (1989)
9) Dr. Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, “Introduction to Al Sharia Al Islamia”
Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad (2001)
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Annexure “D”
Note: One course will be selected from the following three courses of
Mathematics.
COMPULSORY MATHEMATICS
COURSES FOR BS (4 YEAR)
(FOR STUDENTS NOT MAJORING IN MATHEMATICS)
1. MATHEMATICS I (ALGEBRA)
Prerequisite(s): Mathematics at secondary level
Credit Hours: 3+0
Specific Objectives of the Course: To prepare the students, not majoring

in mathematics, with the essential tools of algebra to apply the concepts
and the techniques in their respective disciplines.
Course Outline:
Preliminaries: Real-number system, complex numbers, introduction to sets,

set operations, functions, types of functions.
Matrices: Introduction to matrices, types, matrix inverse, determinants,
system of linear equations, Cramer’s rule.
Quadratic Equations: Solution of quadratic equations, qualitative analysis

of roots of a quadratic equations, equations reducible to quadratic
equations, cube roots of unity, relation between roots and coefficients of
quadratic equations.
Sequences and Series: Arithmetic progression, geometric progression,

harmonic progression.
Binomial Theorem: Introduction to mathematical induction, binomial
theorem with rational and irrational indices.
Trigonometry: Fundamentals of trigonometry, trigonometric identities.
Recommended Books:
Dolciani MP, Wooton W, Beckenback EF, Sharron S, Algebra 2 and
Trigonometry, 1978, Houghton & Mifflin,
Boston (suggested text)
Kaufmann JE, College Algebra and Trigonometry, 1987, PWS-Kent
Company, Boston
Swokowski EW, Fundamentals of Algebra and Trigonometry (6th edition),
1986, PWS-Kent Company, Boston
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2. MATHEMATICS II (CALCULUS)
Prerequisite(s): Mathematics I (Algebra)
Credit Hours: 3+0

in mathematics, with the essential tools of calculus to apply the concepts
Course Outline:
Preliminaries: Real-number line, functions and their graphs, solution of
equations involving absolute values, inequalities.
Limits and Continuity: Limit of a function, left-hand and right-hand limits,
continuity, continuous functions.
Derivatives and their Applications: Differentiable functions, differentiation of
polynomial, rational and transcendental functions, derivatives.
Integration and Definite Integrals: Techniques of evaluating indefinite
integrals, integration by substitution, integration by parts, change of
variables in indefinite integrals.
Recommended Books:
Anton H, Bevens I, Davis S, Calculus: A New Horizon (8th edition), 2005,
John Wiley, New York
Stewart J, Calculus (3rd edition), 1995, Brooks/Cole (suggested text)
Swokowski EW, Calculus and Analytic Geometry, 1983, PWS-Kent
Company, Boston
Thomas GB, Finney AR, Calculus (11th edition), 2005, Addison-Wesley,
Reading, Ma, USA
3. MATHEMATICS III (GEOMETRY)

Prerequisite(s): Mathematics II (Calculus)
Credit Hours: 3+0
in mathematics, with the essential tools of geometry to apply the concepts
Course Outline:
Geometry in Two Dimensions: Cartesian-coordinate mesh, slope of a line,
equation of a line, parallel and perpendicular lines, various forms of
equation of a line, intersection of two lines, angle between two lines,
distance between two points, distance between a point and a line.
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Circle: Equation of a circle, circles determined by various conditions,
intersection of lines and circles, locus of a point in various conditions.
Conic Sections: Parabola, ellipse, hyperbola, the general-second-degree
equation
Recommended Books:
Abraham S, Analytic Geometry, Scott, Freshman and Company, 1969
Kaufmann JE, College Algebra and Trigonometry, 1987, PWS-Kent
Company, Boston
Swokowski EW, Fundamentals of Algebra and Trigonometry (6th edition),
1986, PWS-Kent Company, Boston
Annexure “E”
COURSE FOR NON-STATISTICS MAJOR IN SOCIAL
SCIENCES
Title of subject : Introduction of Statistics
Discipline : BS (Social Sciences).
Pre-requisites : SSC (Metric) level Mathematics
Credit Hours : 03 + 00
Minimum Contact Hours: 40
Assessment : written examination;
Effective : 2008 and onward
Aims : To give the basic knowledge of Statistics and prepare

the students not majoring in Statistics
Objectives : After completion of this course the student should be
able to:
 Understand the use of the essential tools of basic
Statistics;
 Apply the concepts and the techniques in their
respective disciplines.
Unit 1. What is Statistics?

Definition of Statistics, Population, Sample, Descriptive and
Inferential Statistics, Observations, Data, Discrete and continuous
variables, Errors of measurement, Significant digits, Rounding of a
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Number, Collection of primary and secondary data, Sources,
Editing of Data, Exercises.
Unit 2. Presentation of Data

Introduction, basic principles of classification and Tabulation,
Constructing of a frequency distribution, Relative and Cumulative
frequency distribution, Diagrams, Graphs and their Construction,
Bar charts, Pie chart, Histogram, Frequency polygon and
Frequency curve, Cumulative Frequency Polygon or Ogive,
Historigram, Ogive for Discrete Variable, Types of frequency
curves, Exercises.
Unit 3. Measures of Central Tendency

Introduction, Different types of Averages, Quantiles, The Mode,
Empirical Relation between Mean, Median and Mode, Relative
Merits and Demerits of various Averages. Properties of Good
Average, Box and Whisker Plot, Stem and Leaf Display, definition
of outliers and their detection, Exercises
Unit 4. Measures of Dispersion
Introduction, Absolute and relative measures, Range, Quartile
Deviation, The Mean Deviation, The Variance and standard
deviation, Change of origin and scale, Interpretation of the
standard Deviation, Coefficient of variation, Properties of variance
and standard Deviation, Standardized variables, Moments and
Moments ratios, Exercises.
Unit 5. Probability and Probability Distributions
Discrete and continuous distributions: Binomial, Poisson and
Normal Distribution. Exercises
Unit 6. Sampling and Sampling Distributions
Introduction, sample design and sampling frame, bias, sampling
and non-sampling errors, sampling with and without replacement,
probability and non-probability sampling, Sampling distributions for
single mean and proportion, Difference of means and proportions,
Exercises.
Unit 7. Hypothesis Testing
Introduction, Statistical problem, null and alternative hypothesis,
Type-I and Type-II errors, level of significance, Test statistics,
acceptance and rejection regions, general procedure for testing of
hypothesis, Exercises.
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Unit 8. Testing of Hypothesis- Single Population
Introduction, testing of hypothesis and confidence interval about
the population mean and proportion for small and large samples,
Exercises
Unit 9. Testing of Hypotheses-Two or more Populations
Introduction, Testing of hypothesis and confidence intervals about
the difference of population means and proportions for small and
large samples, Analysis of Variance and ANOVA Table, Exercises
Unit 10. Testing of Hypothesis-Independece of Attributes
Introduction, Contingency Tables, Testing of hypothesis about the
Independence of attributes, Exercises
Unit 11. Regression and Correlation
Introduction, cause and effect relationships, examples, simple
linear regression, estimation of parameters and their interpretation,
Correlation, Coefficient of linear correlation, its estimation, and
interpretation of r and R2. Multiple regression and interpretation of
its parameters, Examples
Recommended Books
1 Walpole, R. E. 1982. “Introduction to Statistics”, 3rd Ed., Macmillan
Publishing Co., Inc. New York.
2 Muhammad, F. 2005. “Statistical Methods and Data Analysis”,
Kitab Markaz, Bhawana Bazar Faisalabad.
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MS STATISTICS (2 Years programme)
MS Statistics will contain a total of 36 Credit Hours out of which 24(12+12)
will comprise course work in the first two semesters (1st year of study) and
final two semesters will be for thesis / research equivalent to 12 Credit
Hours.
Detail of Credit Hours is as follows:-
Total Credit
Semester No. of Subjects Credit Hours
Hours
1st 4 3 12
2nd 4 3 12
3rd + 4th Thesis / Research Work 12
Total Credit Hours for MS Statistics 36
The list of courses is as follows:

Courses
Stat-701 Advanced Probability Theory (3 cr.hrs.)

Stat-702 Linear Models (3 cr.hrs.)
Stat-703 Advanced Statistical Inference (3 cr.hrs.)
Stat-704 Advanced Regression Analysis (3 cr.hrs.)
Stat-705 Advanced Design of Experiments (3 cr.hrs.)
Stat-706 Advanced Multivariate Analysis (3 cr.hrs.)
Stat-707 Econometrics for Count Data and Durations (3 cr.hrs.)
Stat-708 Time Series Analysis and Forecasting (3 cr.hrs.)
Stat-709 Advanced Categorical Data Analysis (3 cr.hrs.)
Stat-710 Logical Reasoning and Research Methods (3 cr.hrs.)
Stat-711 Survey Sampling (3 cr.hrs.)
Stat-712 Measure Theory (3 cr.hrs.)
Stat-713 Survival Data Analysis (3 cr.hrs.)
Stat-714 Applied Stochastic Models (3 cr.hrs.)
Stat-715 Spatial Data Analysis (3 cr.hrs.)
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Stat-716 Advanced Distribution Theory (3 cr.hrs.)
Stat-717 Inference in Stochastic Processes (3 cr.hrs.)
Stat-718 Advanced Bayesian Inference (3 cr.hrs.)
Stat-719 Optimization Techniques (3 cr.hrs.)
Stat-720 Statistical Ecology (3 cr.hrs.)
Stat-721 Medical Statistics (3 cr.hrs.)
Stat-722 Analysis of Clinical Trials (3 cr.hrs.)
Stat-723 Financial Stochastic Models (3 cr.hrs.)
Stat-724 Statistical Genetics (3 cr.hrs.)
Stat-725 Generalized Linear Models (3 cr.hrs.)
Stat-726 Repeated Measure Analysis (3 cr.hrs.)
*Stat-727 Decision Trees (3 cr.hrs.)
*Stat-728 Theory of Mixed Linear Models (3 cr.hrs.)
*Stat-729 Advanced Operations Research (3 cr.hrs.)
*Stat-730 Multilevel Modeling (3 cr.hrs.)
*Stat-731 Environmental Statistics (3 cr.hrs.)
*Stat-731 Advanced Statistical Methods in Quality Control (3 cr.hrs.)
* These courses can be offered depending upon the availability of

faculty. The syllabus will be formulated by the respective
departments/universities.
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Detail of courses
STAT- 701: Advanced Probability Theory (3 Cr. Hours)

Algebra of sets, fields and sigma-fields, limits of sequences of subsets,
sigma-field generated by a class of subsets, Borel fields, Probability,
measure on a sigma-fields, probability space, continuity of a probability
measure. Real and vector-valued random variables, distribution functions
(d.f.) discrete r.v.s., r.v.s of the continuous type, decomposition of c.d.f,
independence of two events and (n> 2) events, sequence of independent
events, independent classes of events. Dynkin’s theorem, independence of
r.v.s, Borel zero-one law, Expectation of a real r.v. and of a complex-
valued r.v. Linear properties of expectations, characteristic functions, their
simple properties, uniqueness theorem. Convergence of a sequence of
r.v.s., convergence in distribution, convergence in probability, Kolmogorov
strong law of large numbers (without proof), monotone convergence
theorem and dominated convergence theorem, continuity theorem for
characteristic functions. Lindeberg’s CLT and its particular cases, Cramer’s
theorem on composition of convergence in distribution and convergence in
probability.
Recommended Books:
1. Bhat, B.R. (1985), Modern Probability Theory, Wiley Eastern.

2. Billingsley, P. (1986), Probability and Measure, John Wiley and
Sons.
3. Feller, W. (1969), Introduction to Probability and its Applications, Vol-
II, Wiley Eastern Ltd.
4. Gnedenko, B.V. (1988), Probability Theory, Mir Pub.
5. Loeve, M. (1978), Probability Theory, 4th ed., Springer Verlag.
6. Stuart A. and Ord J. K. (1998) Advanced Theory of Statistics,
Volume I: Distribution Theory. 6th Ed, Edward Arnold
STAT- 702: Linear Models (3 Cr. Hours)

Introduction to linear models with examples, Review of Matrix Algebra,
Random vectors, multivariate normal distribution and quadratic forms,
General linear model: Linear least squares problem, Model fitting, extra
sums of squares principle, Model checking and model selection,
Generalized least squares, Statistical inference for the general linear
model, Sequential and hierarchical sums of squares, Sensitivity of
assumptions in general linear model :Under-fitting, over-fitting,
Misspecification of covariance structure, and non-normality, Fixed, random
effect, and mixed models, A short introduction to generalized linear model.
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Recommended Books:
1. Alvin C. R., and G. Bruce S. (2008) Linear Models in Statistics (2nd

2. Bingham N. H. and Fry J. M. (2010) Regression: Linear Models in
Statistics. Springer.
3. Graybill, F.A. (1976). Theory and Application of the Linear Model.
Duxbury Press.
4. Julian J. Faraway (2002) Linear Models with R
5. Michael, K., Nachtsheim, C., Neter, J., and Li, W. (2004) Applied
Linear Statistical Models: 5th edition. McGraw-Hill
6. Rao C. R., Toutenberg, H., Shalabh, and Heumann, C. (2007).
Linear Models and Generalizations: Lest Squares and Alternatives.
Springer.
7. Rencher, A.C. (2000). Linear Models in Statistics. Wiley.
8. Searle, S.R. (1971). Linear Models. Wiley.
9. Stapleton, J.H. (1995). Linear Statistical Models. Wiley.
10. Steven J. J., and Fredrick C. T. (2005) Introduction to Linear Models
and Statistical Inference, Wiley
STAT- 703: Advanced Statistical Inference (3 Cr. Hours)

Objective of statistical analysis and theory, criteria for the choice of families
of models, the likelihood, sufficient statistics, some general principals of
statistics inference, significance tests: simple null hypothesis and simple
alternative hypothesis, some example, discrete problems, composite
alternatives, two-sided tests, Local power, Multidimensional alternatives,
composite null hypothesis, similar Region, invariants tests, Distribution–
free and randomization tests: permutation tests, Rank test, Randomization
tests, distance tests, Interval estimation: Scalar parameter, scalar
parameter with nuisance parameters, Vector parameter, estimation of
future observations, Point estimation: General considerations on bias and
variance, Cramer–Rao inequality, Achievement of minimum variance and
remove of bias, estimates of minimum mean squared error, Robust
estimation, Asymptotic theory: Introduction, maximum likelihood estimates,
large sample parametric significance tests, Robust inference for location
parameters.
Recommended Books:
1. Cox, D.R. and Hinkley, D.V. (1974). Theoretical Statistics. Chapman
and Hall, London.
2. Freund, J. E. (1997). Mathematical Statistics. Prentice-Hall, New
Jersey.
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3. Hogg, R., Elliot A. Tanis, Robert V. Hogg, Elliot. (2000). Probability
and Statistical Inference. Prentice Hall (6th Edition).
4. Hogg, R.V. and Craig, A.T. (1996). Introduction to Mathematical
Statistics. Prentice Hall, New Jersey.
5. Lehman, E.L. (1983). Theory of Point Estimation. John Wiley and
Sons.
6. Lehmann, E.L. (1997). Testing Statistical Hypotheses. Springler -
Valag, New York.
7. Lindgren, B.W. (1998). Statistical Theory. Chapman and Hall, New
York.
8. Mood, A.M. Graybill, F.A. and Boss, D.C. (1997). Introduction to the
Theory of Statistics. McGraw-Hill, New York.
9. Rao, C.R., (1973). Linear Statistical Inference and its Applications.
10. Rohatgi, V.K. (1984). Statistical Inference, John Wiley and Sons.
11. Silvey, S. D. (1975). Statistical Inference. Chapman and Hall.
12. Stuart,A and Ord J.K. (1998). Kendalls’ Advanced Theory of
Statistics Vol. II. Charles Griffen, London.
13. Zacks, S. (1973). Parametric Statistical Inference. John Wiley, New
York.
STAT- 704: Advanced Regression Analysis (3 Cr. Hours)

Brief review of multiple regression by least-squares, Outliers: Analysis of
residuals, Influence measure, identifying influential observations,
Diagnostics Tests, Robust regression, Tests for normality, choosing a
regression model using various computational techniques: All possible
regressions, forward selection, backward elimination and stepwise
regressions. Re-Sampling techniques: Jackknifing, Bootstrapping and
Cross-Validation
Recommended Books:
1. Barnett, V. and Lewis, T. (1984). Outlier in Statistical data, 2 nd

Edition, John Wiley and Sons New York.
2. Belsley, D.A.; Kuh, E. and Welsch, R.E. (1980). Regression
Diagnostic: identifying influential data and sources of collinearity.
3. Draper, N.R. and Smith H. (1998). Applied Regression Analysis. 3rd
edition. John Wiley and Sons New York.
4. Rawlings, P.J. (1987). Applied regression analysis, A research tool.
Wadsworth & Brook/Cole, Pacific Grave, California.
5. Rousseew, P.J. and Leroy, A. M. (1987). Robust regression and
outlier detection. John Wiley and Sons New York.
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6. Wetherill, G. B. (1986). Regression Analysis with applications. John
Wiley and Sons New York
STAT- 705: Advanced Design of Experiments (3Cr. Hours)

Incomplete Block Designs, Lattice square designs, generalized lattice
designs, Alpha lattice designs, Youden Square, Change-Over Design,
Cyclic Designs, and Response Surface Methodology, First and second
order RS designs. Designs Robust to underlying Model, Outliers and
Missing observations, Taguchi Methods., Optimal designs (An optimal, D
optimal).
Recommended Books:
1. Boniface, D.R. (1995). Experiment Design & Statistical Methods,

Chapman & Hall.
2. Cochran, W.G. and Cox, G.M. (1992), Experimental Design, Wiley
International.
3. Dey, A. (1986), Theory of Block Designs, Wiley Eastern Ltd. New
Delhi
4. Harold, R. L (1992) Analysis of Variance in Experimental Design.
Springer Verlag:
5. Hunter, B. and Hunter, W. G. (2005) Statistics for Experimenters:
Design, Innovation and Discovery. Wiley.
6. John, J.A. (1987), Cyclic Design, Chapman and Hall, London
7. Kenward, M.G. and Jones, B. (1989), Design and Analysis of Cross-
over Trails.
8. Khuri, A. I. and Cornell, J. A. (2001) Response Surfaces; design and
Analysis, 2nd ed, CRC Press, USA.
9. Maxwell, S.E. and Delaney, H.D. (1990). Designing Experiments and
Analysis of Data. A model comparison perspective. Belment and
Wadeson.
10. Mead, R. (1988). The Design of Experiments. Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge.
11. Montgomery D.C. (2012). Design and Analysis of Experiments, John
Wiley, NY.
12. Myers, R.H. and Montgomery, D.C. (1995). Response Surface
Methodology; Process & Product Optimization using design, John
Wiley.
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STAT-706: Advanced Multivariate Analysis (3 Cr. Hours)
Multivariate Normal Distribution, Wishart distribution and their properties,
Hotelling’s T2 Distribution, Methods of Estimation; Maximum Likelihood and
least squares, Multivariate Hypothesis testing, Likelihood ratio test, One
sample and multi-sample hypothesis.
Principal Component Analysis, Factor Analysis, Discriminant Analysis.
Canonical Correlation, Cluster analysis, Path analysis, Multivariate
Analysis of variance (MANOVA)
Recommended Books:
1. Afifi, A. A. and Clark Virginia (1984). Computer Aided Multivariate

Analysis, Lifetime learning publications, Belmont California.
2. Anderson, T.W. (2003). An Introduction to Multivariate Statistical
Analysis, John Wiley, New York.
3. Chatfield, C. and Collins, A.J. (1980). Introduction to Multivariate
Analysis, Chapman and Hall, London.
4. Everett, B.J. (1974). Cluster Analysis, McGraw-Hill, New York.
5. Flurry B. (1997) A First Course in Multivariate Statistics, Springer
Valerg, New York.
6. Hair, J.F., Anderson R.E., Jatham, R.L.and Black W.C., (1998).
Multivariate Data Analysis, 5th ed. Pearson Education, Re print 2005,
Asia edition.
7. Johnson, R.A. and Wincher, D.W. (2004). Applied Multivariate
Statistical Analysis. Prentice Hall. London.
8. Manly, B.F.J. (1994). Multivariate Statistical Methods, A Primer 2nd
Edition, Chapman and Hall, London.
9. Mardia, K.V., Kent, J.T. and Bibby, J.M. (1979). Multivariate Analysis,
Academic Press, London.
10. Morrison. F. (1990). Multivariate Statistical Methods, McGraw-Hill,
New York.
11. Sharma, S. (1996), Applied Multivariate Techniques, John Wiley and
Sons, New York.
12. Tabachnick, B.G and Fidell, L.S. (1996), Using Multivariate
Statistics, 3rd ed. Harper Collins College, Publishers.
STAT- 707: Econometrics for Count Data and Durations

(3 Cr. Hours)
Basic Count Regression Models: Count data basics, Specification and
estimation of count regression models, Poisson MLE, PMLE and GLM.
Negative Binomial MLE QGPMLE, Over Dispersion Tets, Ordered Models.
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Generalized Count Regression Models, Mixture models for unobserved
heterogeneity, Models based on waiting time distribution, Katz, Double
Poisson and Generalized Poisson, Truncated and Censored Counts,
Hurdle and Zero-inflated models
Model evaluation and Testing: Residual analysis, Goodness of fit,
Hypothesis Tests.
Duration data: Basic concepts of duration analysis, Hazard and Survivor
Functions, Probability distributions for duration data, Exponential, PCE and
Weibull Models. The relationship between counts and durations: Renewal
processes, Specification and estimation of continuous time single-spell
duration models, The Proportional Hazards Model, The mixed proportional
hazard model. Competing risk models
Recommended Books:
1. Colin, A. C., & Trivedi, K. P. (2010). Microeconometrics Using Stata,
Edition 2. Stata Press: Texas, USA .
2. Colin, A. C., & Trivedi, K. P. (2013). Regression Analysis of Count
Data,
2nd Edition, Econometric Society Monograph, Cambridge University
Press: Cambridge, UK. Econometrics, Volume V, North Holland,
Amsterdam.
3. Hilbe, M. J. (2011). Negative Binomial Regression. 2nd edition,
Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK.
4. Lancaster, T. (1990). The Econometric Analysis of Transition Data,
Cambridge multiple durations, in J.J. Heckman and E. Leamer,
editors, Handbook of University Press.
5. Van den Berg, G. J. (2001). Duration models: Specification,
identification, and
6. Winkelmann, R. (2010). Econometric Analysis of Count
Data. Springer Verlag: Berlin Heidelberg.
STAT- 708: Time Series Analysis and Forecasting

(3 Cr. Hours)
Types of data, components of time series data, Stochastic processes,
Stationary and non-stationary processes, Forms and tests of non-
stationarity, Purely random processes, Random walk models, Lag
operator, Difference equations and their solutions, Smoothing and
decomposition methods, Univariate time series analysis (ARMA, ARIMA,
Box-Jenkins approach, ARCH,GARCH etc.), Time series modeling and
diagnostic checking, State space models and use of Kalman filter,
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Multivariate time series analysis: Granger causality, Vector Autoregressive
Models. Transfer function and intervention analysis, Time series
forecasting, Co-integration analysis, Vector error correction model and
Johansen approach.
Recommended Books:
1. Anderson, T., The Statistical Analysis of Time-Series, John Wiley
and Sons. (1976).
2. Asteriou, D. (2006), Applied Econometrics, Palgrave Macmillan, New
York
3. Box, G.E.P. and Jenkins G.M., Time-Series Analysis: Forecasting
and Control 3rd Ed., Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. USA,
(1994).
4. Chatfield C. (2003) The Analysis of Time Series-An introduction.
Tylor & Francis, NY, USA.
5. Enders, W. (1995), Applied Econometric Time Series, New York:
John Willy & Sons Inc.
6. Enders, Walter, Applied Econometric Time Series, John Wiley and
Sons, Inc. USA, (1995).
7. Jonathan D. C. and Kung-Sik C. (2008): Time Series Analysis with
Applications in R, Springer, USA.
8. Gujarati, N. D. and Sangeetha (2007), Basic Econometrics, TATA
McGraw – Hill, Companies 4th – Edition
9. Hamilton J. D. (1994), Time Series Analysis, Princeton University
Press, UK
10. Harvey, H.C., Time Series Models, Halstead Press, New York. USA,
(1993).
11. Kirchgassner, G. and Jurgen Wolters (2007), Introduction to Modern
Time Series Analysis, Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
12. Lutkepohl, H. and Markus Kratzig (2004), Applied Time Series
Econometric, Cambridge University Press, New York.
13. Maddala, G. S. and Kim, I-M. (1998), Unit Roots, Cointegration and
Structural Change, Cambridge University Press
14. Ostraom C.W., Time Series Analysis: Regression Techniques Sage
Publications, Beverly Hills, C.A. USA, (1978).
15. Peter J. B and Richard A. D (2002): Introduction to Time Series and
Forecasting, Second Edition, Springer, USA.
16. Warner R.M., Spectral Analysis of Time Series data. Guilford Press
New York, USA, (1998).
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STAT- 709: Advanced Categorical Data Analysis
(3 Cr. Hours)
Introduction to categorical data analysis, Principles of likelihood-based
inference, Sampling distributions for contingency tables, Measures of
association for 2x2 tables, Testing independence in contingency tables,
Exact inference for two-way tables, Inferences for three-way tables.
Introduction to generalized linear models, Logistic regression, Model
building, Alternative link functions for binary outcome, Diagnostics, Exact
methods and conditional logistic regression, Methods for analyzing
matched case-control data, Multinomial response models for nominal data,
Multinomial response models for ordinal data.
Poisson regression model, Poisson regression for rates, Log-linear models
for contingency tables, Negative binomial models, Quasi-likelihood and
Generalized Estimating Equations
Recommended Books:
1. Alan Agresti (2002) Categorical Data Analysis (2nd edition). John
Wiley & Sons.
2. Alan Agresti (2007) An Introduction to Categorical Data Analysis (2nd
3. Alan Agresti (2010) Analysis of ordinal categorical data (2nd edition).
John Wiley & Sons.
4. Anderson E. B. (1994) The Statistical Analysis of Categorical Data.
Springer – Verlag.
5. Bishop Y. M., Fienberg S. E., Holland P. W. (2007) Discrete
Multivariate Analysis. Springer.
6. Chap T. Le (1998) Applied Categorical Data Analysis. Wiley
7. Collett D. (2003) Modeling Binary Data. Champman and Hall/CRC.
8. Fienberg S. E. (2007) The Analysis of Cross-Classified Categorical
Data. Springer
9. Fleiss J. L., Levin, B., Paik M. C., (2004) Statistical Methods for
Rates and Proportions. Wiley
10. Hosmer D. W., Lemeshow S. (2004) Applied Logistic Regression.
John Wiley & Sons.
11. Lloyd C. J. (1999) Statistical Analysis of Categorical Data. Willey
12. McCullagh P., and Nelder J. A. (1989) Generalized Linear Model.
Chapman & Hall
13. Powers D. A., and Yu Xie (2008) Statistical Methods for Categorical
data analysis (2nd edition). Emerald Group publishing.
14. Ronald C. (1997) Log-linear models and logistic regression (2nd
edition). Springer.
15. Simonoff J. S. (2003) Analyzing Categorical Data. Springer
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STAT- 710: Logical Reasoning and Research Methods
(3 Cr. Hours)
Propositions and arguments, recognizing arguments, validity and invalidity,
fallacies, symbolizing arguments, truth functions, truth tables, proving
validity and invalidity, science and scientific attitude, theory and fact,
sources and properties of hypothesis, formulation of research problems
and its significance, preparation of research design, components of
research design, questionnaires and interviews, preparation of research
report. Multidimensional scaling
Recommended Books:
1. Copi, I.M. (1986), Introduction to Logic, 7th ed. Macmillan Publishing
Co.
2. Goodde & Hatt (1991), Methods in Social Research, McGraw Hill.
3. Hurley, P.J. (1988). A Concise Introduction to Logic, 3rd ed.
Wadworth Publishing Co.
STAT- 711: Survey Sampling (3 Cr. Hours)

Non-Sampling Errors, Observational Errors, Incomplete Sampling, Non-
response, Effects of Non -response, Response and Response Variance,
Sources of Response Error, Detection, Control and Measurement of
Response Error, Scaling Methods, Types of Scales, General Procedure in
Attitude Scaling, Rating Scales, Likert Scale, Guttman Scale, Sematic
Differential, A Survey of Super population Models. Randomization theory
results for SRS Model for SRS, and model for ratio and Regression
Estimation. Model for Stratified Sampling, Cluster Sampling, Models for
unequal Probability Sampling, Complex Surveys, Variance Estimations in
Complex Surveys, Categorical Data Analysis in Complex Surveys,
Regression Analysis for Complex Survey, Effects of Survey Design on
Regression Analysis, Effects of Two-stage Sampling on OLS Methods,
Comparison of Domain Means in Two-stage Sampling.
Recommended Books:
1. Cochran, W.G. (1996). Sampling Techniques. John Wiley and Sons,

New York.
2. Des Raj and Chandhok, P. (1998), Sample Survey Theory. Narosa
3. Des Raj. (1998). Design of Sample Survey. McGraw Hill, New York.
4. Kish, L. (1992). Survey Sampling. John Wiley, New York.
5. Lessler, J.T. and Kalskeek, W.D. (1992). Non-Sampling Errors in
Surveys. John Wiley and Sons.
6. Lohr, S.L. (1999). Sampling: Design and Analysis. Duxbury Press.
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7. Mukhopadhyay, P. (2005). Theory and Methods of Survey Sampling.
Prentice-Hall of India.
STAT- 712: Measure Theory (3 Cr. Hours)

Lebesgue measure: Introduction, outer measure, measurable sets and
Lebesgue measure, a non-measurable set. Measurable functions.
Labesgue Integral, the Riemann integral of a bounded function over a set
of finite measure. The integral of a non-negative function, The general
Labesgue. General measure and integration, measure space, measure
functions, integration, general convergence theorems, signed measure,
Hahn decomposition theorem, Outer measure and measurability, The
extension theorems, Convergence in measures. Some related topics: the
Lp space, Holder and Minkowaski inequalities, convergence and
completeness, bounded linear functional on Lp space rieaz representation
theorem.
Recommended Books:
1. Barru, G.D. (1981), Measure Theory and Integration, Ellis, Harwood
Ltd.
2. Carlos S.K. (2007): Gulf professional publishing measure theory,
John Wiley and sons.
3. Dipak Chatter Jee (2002): Real Analysis, Prentice Hall New Delhi.
4. Folland, G.B. (1984), Real Analysis-Modern Techniques and their
Applications, John Wiley and Sons.
5. Gupta S. L. and Gupta N.R. (2003): Principles of real analysis,
Pearson.
6. Khan, A.R. (1993) Introduction to Lebesgue Integration, Illmi Kitab
Khana, Lahore.
7. Malempati M.R. (2004): Measure theory and integration, Marcel
Dekker.
8. Roydon, H.L. (1968) Real Analysis, Collier Macmillan Co. New York.
9. Rudin, W. (1980) Real and Complex Analysis, McGraw Hill.
STAT-713: Survival Data Analysis (3 Cr. Hours)

Basic Concepts, Censoring, Types of Censoring, Survival Functions,
Relationship between Survival, Hazard and Density Functions, Survival
Curves, Estimation of Survivorship Functions for Different Parametric
Distributions, Non- Parametric Methods of Estimating Survival Functions,
Non- Parametric Methods for Comparing Survival Distributions, Some
Well-Known Survival Distributions and their Applications, Estimation
Procedure for Parametric Survival Distributions without Covariates,
Graphical Method for Survival Distribution Fitting, Test of Goodness of Fit
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and Distribution Selection, Parametric Methods of Comparing Two Survival
Distributions, Parametric Methods for Regression Model Fitting and
Identification of Prognostic Factors, Identification of Prognostic Factors
related to Survival Time: Cox Proportional Hazard Model, and Non
Proportional Hazard models.
Recommended Books:
1. Birkett, M. (1995). Analyzing Survival Data from Clinical Trials and
Observational Studies, John Wiley: New York.
2. Cleves , M., Gould, W., Gutierrez, R., & Marchenko, Y. (2010). An
Introduction to Survival Analysis Using Stata, Third Edition, Stata
Press, Texas:USA.
3. Collet, D. (2003). Modeling Survival Data in Medical Research,
Chapman and Hall: London.
4. Hosmer, W. D., & Lemeshow, S. (2008). Applied Survival Analysis:
Regression Modeling of Time to Event Data.2nd edition Wiley-
Interscience, Hoboken: New Jersey.
5. Klein,J. P., & Moeschberger , M. L.(2010). Survival Analysis:
Techniques for Censored and Truncated Data (Statistics for Biology
and Health). Springer, New York: USA.
6. Lee, E.T. (1992). Statistical Methods for Survival Data Analysis,
7. Muller, R.G., and Xian, Z. (1996). Survival Analysis with long term
Survivors, John Wiley: New York.
8. Parmer, M. K. B. & Maclin, D. (1995.) Survival Analysis: A practical
Approach, John Wiley: New York.
STAT- 714: Applied Stochastic Models (3 Cr. Hours)

Probability generating functions, compound distributions, simple random
walk, branching processes, Markov process, discrete and continuous time
Markov chains, birth-death process, immigration and emigration process,
immigration-death processes, renewal processes, Markov renewal
process, Ergodic theorem, Gaussian processes and Brownian motion.
Recommended Books:
1. Beaument, G.R.. Introductory Applied Probability.
2. Cox, D.R. and Miller, H.D. (1965). The Theory of Stochastic Process,
Chapman and Hall.
3. Feller, W. (1968) An Introduction to Probability Theory and its
Applications, Vol-1, 3rd ed., John Wiley and Sons.
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4. Melhi, J. (1982), Stochastic Processes, Wiley International Ltd.
5. Stirzaker, D.R. (1982), Probability and Random Processes, Oxford
University Press, London
STAT- 715: Spatial Data Analysis (3 Cr. Hours)

Introduction to spatial statistics and data handling, Eigen function analysis
of aerial unit configuration, spatial auto-correlation and spectral analysis,
models of spatial auto-correlation, higher order autoregressive models,
relationship between autoregressive and spectral models Kriging.
Recommended Books
1. Bartlett, M. (1975), Statistical Analysis of Spatial Pattern, Chapman
and Hall, London.
2. Cressie, N. (1987), Statistics of Spatial Data, John Wiley and Sons.
3. Griffith, D. (1988), Advanced Spatial Statistics, Kluwer, Bostan.
4. Ripley, B. (1988), Statistical Inference for Spatial Processes, John
Wiley and Sons.
5. Upton, G. and Fingleton, B. (1985), Spatial Data Analysis by
Example, Vol.1 & 2, John Wiley and Sons.
STAT- 716: Advance Distribution Theory (3 Cr. Hours)

Probability measures, expectations, conditioning, convergence of random
sequences, law of large numbers, central limit theory, characteristic
functions, discrete distributions, continuous distributions, systems of
distributions: Pearson and Johnson, Chebyshev-Hermite polynomials,
Gram-Charlier Series (Type-A), polynomial transformation to normality.
Order statistics and their sampling
Recommended Books:
1. Billingsely, P. (1986), Probability and Measure. 2nd ed. John Wiley
and Sons.
2. Johnson, N.L. and Kotz, S. (1987), Continuous Univariate
Distribution, Vol-1 & 2, John Wiley and Sons.
3. Stuart, A. and Ord, J.K. (1987), Kendall’s Advanced Theory of
Statistics, Vol-1, 5th ed. Chales Griffin and Co. Ltd.
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STAT- 717: Inference in Stochastic Processes
(3 Cr. Hours)
Inference in Markov chains, estimation of transition probabilities, testing for
order of a Markov chain, estimation of functions of transition probabilities,
parametric models and their goodness of fit
Markov sequences, estimation of parameters based on likelihood and
conditional least squares, auto-regressive series, Statement of martingale,
strong law of large numbers and Central Limit Theorem for martingales,
CAN property of the MLE from a general sequence of dependent random
variables, Fisher information, Applications to Markov chains and
sequences.
Likelihood of Poisson and other Pure Jump Markov processes from first
principles, CAN property of MLE’s, testing for a Poisson process, non-
homogeneous processes, Analysis of parametric Pure Jump processes,
Birth-Death-Immigration processes, testing goodness of fit of such models
Diffusion processes and their likelihood, properties of estimators (without
proof) Branching processes, Inconsistency of MLE/moment estimators,
Properties of estimators on the non-extinction path, Asymptotic distribution
theory.
Elements of semi-parametric and non-parametric analysis, Theory and
applications of optimal estimating functions, estimation of transition and
stationary density, intensity function of a counting process.
Recommended Books:
1. Adke, S.R. and Manjunath, S.M.(1984) An introduction to Finite
Markov Processes, (Wiley Eastern).
2. Basawa, I.V. and Prakasa Rao, B.L.S.(1980) Statistical Inference for
Stochastic Processes, (Academic Press).
3. Bhat, B.R.(2000) Stochastic models : Analysis and Applications,
(New Age International Publishers).
4. Billingsley, P. (1962) Statistical Inference for Markov chains,
(Chicago University Press).
5. Grimmet G. and Stirzaker D. (2001): Probability and Random
Processes, Oxford University Press.
6. Guttorp, P. (1991) Statistical Inference for Branching Processes,
(Wiley).
7. Guttorp, P.(1995) Stochastic Modelling for Scientific Data,
(Springer).
8. Prakasa Rao, B.L.S. and Bhat, B.R. (1996) Stochastic Processes
and Statistical Inference, New Age International Publisher.
9. Ross S.M. (2006): Stochastic Process.
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STAT- 718: Advanced Bayesian Inference (3 Cr. Hours)
Classical vs Bayesian Statistics, Statistical Inference, Bayes’ theorem;
Likelihood, Prior distribution; Posterior distribution; Summaries of the
univariate, bivariate & multivariate posterior distributions & applications.
Posterior distributions using conjugate prior, Predictive distribution;
Predictive inference, Methods of elicitation of non-information priors,
Bayesian testing of hypothesis; Bayes factor for testing the sharp (point)
hypothesis; The highest density region. Bayesian computation, e.g. Gibbs
sampling, Bayesian Regression
Recommended Books:
1. Berger, J.O., Statistical Decision Theory & Bayesian Analysis,
Springer-Verlag, New York, (1985).
2. Bernardo J. M. & Smith A. F. M., Bayesian Theory, John Wiley and
sons, New York, (2008).
3. Lee P.M., Bayesian Statistics, Oxford University Press, New York,
(2004).
4. O’Hagan, A. Kendall’s, Advanced Theory of Statistics (V2B)
Bayesian Inference, University Press: Cambridge, (1994).
STAT- 719: Optimization Techniques (3 Cr. Hours)

Convex sets, supporting and separating hyper-planes, program and basic
feasible solution, simplex algorithm and simplex method, two phase
method, graphical solution, Charnes’ M -technique.
Duality in linear programming, duality theorems, dual simplex method with
justification, sensitivity and parametric linear programming
Transportation and assignment algorithms, balanced and unbalanced
transportation problems, degeneracy, Hungarian method of assignment,
transshipment problems.
Integer linear programming, Gomory cut method, branch and bound
method, fractional cut method, Network flows, maximal flow in the
network, labeling technique, connection between network flow and
transportation, matrix solution.
Nonlinear programming, Integer Programming, Goal Programming,
Quadratic programming, Kuhn – Tucker conditions, Algorithms (Wolfe’s
Beale’s and Fletcher’s) for solving quadratic programming problem.
Recommended Books:
1. Abhijit G. (2003): Simulation-Based Optimization: Parametric

Optimization Techniques and Reinforcement Learning, Springer-
Verlag New York.
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2. Hadley,G. (1987) Linear Programming.
3. Kambo, N.S.(1991) Mathematical Programming Techniques
Affiliated East-West Press Pvt.Ltd.)
4. Onwuolu, Godfry C., and Babu, B. V. (2004) New Optimization
Techniques in Engineering. Springer.
5. Taha, H.A.(2012) Operations Research. Macmillan
STAT- 720: Statistical Ecology (3 Cr. Hours)

Population Dynamics: One species - exponential, logistic and Gompertz
models. Two species - competition, coexistence, predator - prey oscillation,
Lotka - Volterra equations, isoclines. Leslie matrix model for age structured
populations. Survivorship curves - constant hazard rate, monotone hazard
rate and bath-tub shaped hazard rates. Population density estimation:
Capture- recapture models, nearest neighbor models, line transect
sampling. Ecological Diversity: Simpson’s index, Shannon – Weaver index,
Diversity as average rarity. Optimal Harvesting of Natural Resources,
Maximum sustainable yield, tragedy of the commons. Game theory in
ecology: Concept of Evolutionary stable strategy, its properties, simple
cases such as Hawk-Dove game. Foraging Theory: Diet choice problem,
patch choice problem, mean variance tradeoff.
Recommended Books:
1. Clark, C.W.(1976) Mathematical bio-economics : the optimal

management of renewable resources (Wiley)
2. Gore A.P. and Paranjpe S.A.(2000) A Course on Mathematical and
Statistical Ecology, Kluwer Academic Publishers.
3. Maynard Smith J. (1982) Evolution and the theory of games
(Cambridge University Press)
4. Pielou, E.C.(1977) An Introduction to Mathematical Ecology (Wiley)
5. Seber, G.A.F.(1982) The estimation of animal abundance and
related parameters 2nd Ed. (C.Griffin)
6. Stephens D.W. & Krebs, J. R. (1986) Foraging Theory (Princeton
University Press).
STAT- 721: Medical Statistics (3 Cr. Hours)

Study designs in epidemiology, Measures of disease occurrence and
association, variation and bias. Identifying non-causal association and
confounding.
Defining and assessing heterogeneity of effects, interaction. Sensitivity and
specificity of diagnostic test, Cohort Study designs, statistical power and
sample size computations.
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Log-linear models, 2xK and 2x2x2 contingency tables, Logistic model,
Analysis of binary data. Cross-control study designs, matched case-control
studies.
Survival data: Proportional hazards model, multivariate survival data,
Causal Inference, Longitudinal data, communicating results of
epidemiological studies, ethical issues in epidemiology
Recommended Books:
1. Agresti: Categorical Data Analysis.
2. Alfassi Z. B., Boger, Z. and Ronen, Y. (2005): Statistical Treatment
of Analytical Data, Blackwell Science, USA.
3. Brookemeyer and Gail: AIDS Epidemiology: A Quantitative Approach
4. Clayton and Hills: Statistical methods in Epidemiology.
5. Diggle, Liang and Zeger : Analysis of longitudinal data
6. Hanif M., Munir A. and Aftab M. A. (2006): Biostatistics for Health
Students with Manual on Software Applications, An ISOSS
Publication.
7. Jerald F. L. (2003): Statistical Models and Methods for Lifetime Data,
Joh Wiley.
8. Piantadosi: Clinical trials
9. Rosner B. (2006): Fundamentals Of Biostatistics, Thomson Higher
Education, USA.
10. Selvin: Statistical analysis of epidemiological data.
11. Zhou, Obuchowski and McClish: Statistical Methods in Diagnostic
Medicine
STAT- 722: Analysis of Clinical Trials (3 Cr. Hours)

Introduction to clinical trials: the need and ethics of clinical trials, bias and
random error in clinical studies, conduct of clinical trials, overview of Phase
I-IV trials, multi-center trials. Data management: data definitions, case
report forms, database design, data collection systems for good clinical
practice.
Design of clinical trials: parallel vs. cross-over designs, cross-sectional vs.
longitudinal designs, review of factorial designs, objectives and endpoints
of clinical trials, design of Phase I trials, design of single-stage and multi-
stage Phase II trials, design and monitoring of Phase III trials with
sequential stopping, design of bio-equivalence trials.
Reporting and analysis: analysis of categorical outcomes from phase I – III
trials, analysis of survival data from clinical trials.
Surrogate endpoints: selection and design of trials with surrogate
endpoints, analysis of surrogate endpoint data. Meta-analysis of clinical
trials
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Recommended Books:
1. C. Jennison and B. W. Turnbull (1999). Group Sequential Methods
with Applications to Clinical Trails, CRC Press.
2. Chow S.C. and Liu J.P. (2003): Design and Analysis of Clinical
Trials: Concepts and Methodologies, 2nd Edition, Wiley.
3. E. Marubeni and M. G. Valsecchi (1994). Analyzing Survival Data
from Clinical Trials and Observational Studies, Wiley and Sons.
4. J. L. Fleiss (1989). The Design and Analysis of Clinical Experiments.
Wiley and Sons.
5. L. M. Friedman, C. Furburg, D. L. Demets (1998). Fundamentals of
Clinical Trials, Springer Verlag.
6. S. Piantadosi (1997). Clinical Trials: A Methodological Perspective.
Wiley and Sons.
STAT- 723: Financial Stochastic Models (3 Cr. Hours)

Derivatives: forward and future contracts. Markets, prices, arbitrage and
hedging, Options markets, properties of stock option prices.
American and European options, Binomial model: One-step and two-step
models, Binomial trees. Risk neutral valuation, Behaviour of stock prices:
Conditional expectation, Martingale, Brownian Motion, Markov property,
ITO Process, ITO Lemma, Black Scholes model: Distribution of returns,
volatility, Black-Scholes-Merton differential equation. Estimating volatility,
Options on stock indices, currencies and futures. Greek Letters and
hedging, Value at risk
Recommended Books
1. Douglas K. (2010): Stochastic financial models, Chapman & Hall.
2. John Hull L: Options, futures and other derivatives(Prentice Hall)
3. M.Baxter and A.Rennie L: Financial Calculus( Cambridge, 1996)
4. N.Bingham and R.Keisel : Risk-Nuetral Valuation(Springer)
STAT-724: Statistical Genetics (3 Cr. Hours)

Basic concepts in genetics, Bioinformatics, Population Genetics,
Evolutionary Genetics, Genetic Epidemiology, Plant and Animal Genetics
sample designs, gene frequency estimation, Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium,
linkage disequilibrium, association and transmission disequilibrium test
studies, linkage and pedigree analysis, segregation analysis, polygenic
models, DNA sequence analysis, Hypothesis testing and categorical data ,
Chi-square test, Transmission Disequilibrium test
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Recommended Books:
1. A Statistical Approach to Genetic Epidemiology by Andreas

Ziegler and Inke R. König (Jun 22, 2010).
2. Applied Statistical Genetics with R: For Population-based
Association Studies (Use R!) by Andrea S. Foulkes (2009).
3. Handbook of Statistical Genetics (2 volume set) by David J. Balding,
Martin Bishop and Chris Cannings (2007)
4. Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Genetic
Analysis by Kenneth Lange (2002).
5. Statistical Genetics: Gene Mapping Through Linkage and
Association by Benjamin M. Neale, Manuel A.R. Ferreira, Sarah E.
Medland and Danielle Posthuma ( 2008)
6. Statistical Methods in Bioinformatics: An Introduction (Statistics for
Biology and Health) by Warren J. Ewens and Gregory R.
Grant(2010)
7. The Fundamentals of Modern Statistical Genetics (Statistics for
Biology and Health) by Nan M. Laird and Christoph Lange (2010)
STAT- 725: Generalized Linear Models (3 Cr. Hours)

Review of the General Linear Model for Normal Data: Linear regression,
fixed- and mixed-model ANOVA, Analysis of covariance. Extending the
General Linear Model: Non-normal error structure, The exponential class,
Linear and non-linear link functions. Theory of Estimation and Model
Fitting: Likelihood functions and maximum likelihood, Iteratively reweighted
least squares. Theory of Statistical Inference: The deviance function,
Analysis of deviance, Likelihood ratio tests, Wald tests, Confidence
regions. Examples and Illustrations: Classical normal-based models,
Logistic and other binary regression, Log-linear models for count data,
Gamma regression models. Extending Generalized Linear Models:
Extending the exponential class, Over-dispersed models, Quasi-likelihood
models, generalized estimating equations, Polytomous response models.
Recommended Books
1. An Introduction to Generalized Linear Models, Second Edition, A.J.
Dobson (1990) Chapman & Hall.
2. Applying Generalized Linear Models, James Lindsey, Springer-
Verlag, 1997.
3. Bayesian Data Analysis, (1995) A. Gelman, J. Carlin, H. Stern, D.
Rubin, Chapman & Hall.
4. Crawley, M. J. (1993). GLIM for Ecologists. Blackwell Scientific
Publications, Oxford.
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5. Dobson, A. J. (2001). An Introduction to Generalized Linear Models,
Second Edition. Chapman and Hall/CRC, London.
6. Generalized Linear Models, Second Edition (1989) Peter McCullagh
and John A Nelder, Chapman and Hall.
7. Hardin, J., and Hilbe, J. (2001). Generalized Linear Models and
Extensions. Stata Press, College Station, Texas.
8. Markov Chain Monte Carlo in Practice (1996), W.R. Gilks, S.
Richardson, D.J. Spiegelhalter, Chapman & Hall.
9. McCulloch, C., and Searle, S. (2001). Generalized, linear and mixed
models. Wiley, New York.
10. Modelling Frequency and Count Data, J. K. Lindsey (1995) Oxford
University Press.
11. Multivariate Statistical Modelling Based on Generalized Linear
Models, (1994) Tutz, L. Fahrmeir and G. Tutz, Springer Series in
Statistics, New York.
12. Nonparametric Regression and Generalized Linear Models: A
roughness penalty approach (1994). Peter J. Green, Bernard W
Silverman, Chapman & Hall.
13. Statistical Models in S, John M Chambers, Trevor J Hastie. (1992)
Chapman & Hall.
STAT- 726: Repeated Measure Analysis (3 Cr. Hours)

Introduction of repeated measure designs, models and assumptions,
variance–covariance structure, box’s correction, Huynh-Feldt (HF)
condition, circularity assumption, necessary and sufficient conditions for
circularity, mauchley sphere city test, trend analysis, test of trend analysis,
models with interaction, measures of association and power in univariate
repeated measure design, application of repeated measure in basic design
and analysis of co-variance, multi factor experiments in repeated measure
designs, two factors experiment with one factor repeated measure, three
factor experiments with repeated measure, controlling sequence effect,
unequal group size, measures of association and statistical power in
multifactor repeated measure designs.
Recommended Books:
1. Crowder M.J. and Hand D.J. (1999): Analysis of Repeated
Measures, Chapman and Hall.
2. Montgomery, D.C. (2001). “Design and Analysis of Experiment”,
John Wiley and Sons. New York
3. Stevens, J. (1996). “Applied multivariate statistics for the social
sciences”, 3rd ed. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, New Jersey, P:
450-518
4. Weinfurt, K.P. (1995). “Repeated Measure Analysis”, In L.G. Grimm
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STAT- 727: Decision Trees (3 Cr. Hours)
Meaning of classification, classifier and an overview of classification
techniques, Difference between supervised and un-supervised
learning/classifiers, Decision trees and their generation procedures (tree
growing process), role of evaluation functions to split parent node into two
sub-nodes, Various node splitting evaluation functions (impurity-based and
non-impurity-based) including Gini index, Twoing rule and Entropy
function. Properties of impurity-based evaluation functions, Selection
criterion to split a node, Estimation of error rates and right sized
classification trees. Construction of classification trees; evaluating the
performance of a classifier: Holdout Method, Random Sub-Sampling,
Cross-Validation and Bootstrap Samples
Recommended Books:
1. Andrew, R. W. Statistical Pattern Recognition. Second edition. John
Willey & Sons Ltd. UK, (2002).
2. Bramer, M. Principles of Data Mining. Springer-Verlag London
Limited UK, (2007).
3. Breiman, L., Friedman, J. H., Olshen, R. A. & Stone, C. J.
Classification and Regression Trees. Wadsworth International
Group, Belmont, CA, (1984).
4. Efron, B. & Tibshirani, R. J. An Introduction to the Bootstrap.
Chapman and Hall, London, UK, 1993.
5. Rao, C. R., Wegman, E. J. & Solka, J. L. Handbook of Statistics, Vol.
24: Data mining and data visualization. Elsevier B.V., North Holland,
2005.
6. Ripley, B. D. Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks. Cambridge,
New York, NY, 1996.
7. Tan, P., Steinbach, M. & Kumar, V. Introduction to Data Mining.
Addison Wesley, New York, 2006.
Stat – 728: Theory of Mixed Linear Models (3 Cr. Hours)

Linear models, factors and levels, fixed effects and random effects models,
linear mixed models (LMMs), estimation of fixed effects in LMMs,
estimation of variance components: Maximum Likelihood Estimation
(MLE), Restricted Maximum Likelihood (REML) Estimation Method and
Minimum Norm Quadratic Method of Estimation (MINQUE); prediction of
random effects, Best Linear Unbiased Prediction (BLUP) method, testing of
hypotheses in LMMs, likelihood ratio tests for random effects, likelihood
ratio tests for residual variance, F-tests and likelihood ratio tests for fixed
effects, analysis of unbalanced and missing data, mixed model
diagnostics, residual diagnostics, conditional residuals, conditional
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studentized residuals, influence measures for diagnostics, overall and
fixed-effects influence diagnostics.
Recommended Books:
1. Brady T. West, Kathleen B, Welch and Andrzej T. Galecki. 2007.

Linear Mixed Models: A Practical Guide Using Statistical Software.
Chapman and Hall.
2. Charles E. McCulloch and Shayle R. Searle. (2001). Generalized,
Linear, and Mixed Models, Willey Series in Probability and Statistics.
Willey and Sons, New York.
3. Demidenko, E. (2004). Mixed Models—Theory and Applications.
Willey and Sons, New York.
4. Jiang, J. (2007). Linear and Generalized Linear Mixed Models and
Their Applications: Springer Series in Statistics, Springer.
5. Linear Mixed-Effects Modeling in SPSS: An Introduction to the
Mixed Procedure, SPSS Technical Report LMEMWP-1002, Chicago,
IL, 2002.
6. Littell, R.C., Milliken, G.A., Stroup, W.W., and Wolfinger, R.D., SAS
System for Mixed Models, SAS Publishing, Cary, NC, 1996.
STAT- 729: Advanced Operations Research (3 Cr. Hours)

Stochastic Process: Introduction, independent process, independent
processes: Discrete Parameter and continuous parameter, Markov
Process, Markov Chains, Discrete Parameter, Markov Chains: Discrete
Parameter, Continuous parameter, Renewal theory.
Reliability Theory: Introduction, failure phenomenon: Exogenous and
Endogenous – Type Failure, Statistical Characteristic of system subject to
failure, stochastic process underlying the failure phenomenon,
Determination of the failure characteristic of a system given the failure
characteristic of its component-serial system, methods for improving the
Reliability of a system.
Queuing Theory: Introduction and Historical Background, characteristic of
Queuing System, characteristic of Queuing Problems, the M/M/1 Queuing,
the M/M/r queuing system, the modified M/G/1 Queuing System the M/G/r
Queuing System, control of single server Queuing system.
Inventory theory for single commodity single installation system:
Introduction, deterministic Inventory Models, Stochastic Inventory Models.
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Recommended Books:
1. Brownsor, R. (1983). Operation Research – Schaum’s outline Series
– McGraw Hill.
2. Daniel P. Hayman, Daniel P. Hayman Mathew J. Sobel (2003),
Stochastic Models in Operations Research, vol.1 & 2, Dover
Publication.
3. Frederick S. Hillier and Gerald J. Lieberman, (2006). Introduction to
Operations Research. McGraw Hill Higher Education.
4. Gupta P.K & Hira D.S (1994) Operations Research S. Chand & Co.
New Delhi.
5. Hiller F.S and Lieberman, GJ (1992). Introduction to Operation
Research Holden Day.
6. J. Mehdi, Stochastic Process, (1985) Wiley Eastern Limited New
Delhi.
7. Paul A. Jensen (2004), Operations Research Model and Method.
8. Richard Bronson (1997) Operation Research, Schaum’s Outline
Series McGraw Hill international Book Company Singapore.
9. S. French, R. Hartley, L. C Thomas and D.J White (1986) Operation
Research Techniques.
10. Sheldon M. Ross, (2004) “Stochastic Processes” John Wiley & sons,
Inc.
11. Taha, H.A (1998). Operation Research, Macmillan, London.
Stat – 730: Multilevel Modeling (3 Cr. Hours)

Introduction to multilevel modeling, Scope of multilevel models in various
fields,
comparison of multilevel models with traditional regression models, two
level random effect multilevel models and interpretation of parameters,
estimation of parameters in multilevel models, concept of intra-class
correlation in multilevel (ML) models, fitting multilevel models and criteria
for the goodness of the ML models, Sample size estimation for ML models,
effect of sample size on the properties of multilevel model estimates,
application of multilevel models (using statistical packages such as MLwin
or HLM).
Recommended Books:
1. Anthony S. Bryk and Stephes W.Raudenbus (2002). Hierarchical

Linear models: Applications and Data analysis Methods 2nd Edition
size publication.
2. Goldstein, H. (2010). Multilevel Statistical Models, 4th edition, Willey
& Sons.
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3. Goldstein, H. (1995). multilevel statistical models. (2nd ed). New
York: John Wiley.
4. Hox, J. J. (2010). Multilevel Analysis: Techniques and Applications,
Second Edition, Routledge Publisher.
5. Kreft, I., and Dc Leeuus, J. (1998). Introducing multilevel modeling
thousand oaks, CA: sage.
6. Snijders, I., and Bosker, R. (1999). Multilevel analysis. London:
sage.
STAT- 731: Environmental Statistics (3 Cr. Hours)
The Role of Statistics in Environmental Science, Environmental Sampling,

Models for Data, Outliers, Environmental Monitoring, Impact Assessment,
Inaccessible and Sensitive data, Environmental Standards, Time Series
Analysis, Spatial Data Analysis, Censored Data, Monte Carlo Risk
Assessment
Recommended Books:
1. Barnet, V. (2005). Environmental Statistics: Methods and

Applications. John Wiley and Sons.
2. Bryan F.J. Manly (2009). Statistics for Environmental Science and
Management, 2nd Ed., Taylor and Francis.
3. Wayne R. Ott (1994). Environmental Statistics and Data Analysis,
Amazon
STAT- 732: Advanced Statistical Methods in Quality

Control (3 Cr. Hours)
Concepts and definition of quality, Statistical Process Control (SPC) tools,
Multivariate Process Control, Hotelling’s T2 control chart, Failure-Mode and
Effect Analysis (FMEA), Quality Function Deployment (QFD) - Akao model,
House of Quality. Design of experiments, Fractional factorial designs,
Robust designs. Taguchi experiments in industrial setups, Mixture
Designs. Six Sigma concept, Define, measure, improve, control (DMAIC)
philosophy. Design for Six Sigma (DFSS), Quality standards - ISO 9000,
ISO-14000, ISO 22000
Recommended Books:
1. Banks, J. (1989). “Principles of Quality Control”. John Wiley, New
York.
2. Feigenbaum, A.V. (1986). “Total Quality Control”. McGraw Hill, New
York.
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3. Juran, J.M. and Guyana, F.K. (1988). “Juan’s Quality Control
Handbook”. McGraw-Hill New York.
4. Miltag H. J. and Rinne H. (1993). “Statistical Methods of Quality
Assurance”, Chapman & Hall, London.
5. Montgomery, D.C. (2013). “Introduction to Statistical Quality
Control”. McGraw Hill, New York.
6. Nelson, W. (1990). “Accelerated Testing”. John Wiley, New York.
7. Ryan, T.P. (1989). “Statistical Methods for Quality Improvement”.
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HIGHER EDUCATION COMMISSION

Prof. Dr. Mukhtar Ahmed Executive Director

Composed by: Tanveer Ali, HEC, Islamabad

University Grants Commission (UGC) was designated as the competent

In compliance with the above provisions, the Curriculum Division of HEC

In order to impart quality education which is at par with international

It is hoped that this curriculum document, prepared by the respective

STAGE-I STAGE-II STAGE-III STAGE-IV

CURRI. UNDER CURRI. IN DRAFT FINAL STAGE FOLLOW UP

COLLECTION OF APPRAISAL OF 1ST PREP. OF FINAL QUESTIONNAIRE

CONS. OF CRC. FINALIZATION OF INCORPORATION COMMENTS

PREP. OF DRAFT APPROVAL OF PRINTING OF REVIEW

Abbreviations Used: IMPLE. OF BACK TO

MINUTES OF THE FINAL MEETING OF HEC NATIONAL

The final meeting of National Curriculum Revision Committee (NCRC) in

1. Prof. Dr. Salahuddin Convener

3. Mr. Riaz-ul-Haque then requested the Convener of the Committee

4. The Committee reviewed and discussed the draft curriculum of BS

5. After thorough and three days deliberations the committee

The Committee during its deliberation achieved the following objectives:

1. Reviewed and finalized the draft curriculum for Bachelor Studies

7. Mr. Abid Wahab & Mr. Riaz-ul-Haque, Assistant Directors, HEC

6. Design & Analysis of 4 6. Non-Parametric 3

13. Research Project / Internship 3

Semester / Name of Subject Credits

Note: 4 credit hours courses must include Lab. /Practical.

Aims and Objectives

1. To provide a sound footing of the subject matter of statistical theory

3. To involve the students in research project so that they can be better

4. To develop a solid foundation for the effective operational and strategic

Seven courses are to be selected from the following list of courses,

1. Business Administration (Entrepreneurship)

or any other subject depending upon the expertise available.

** Elective Courses for BS (4-Year) Programme for

The proposed outlines of the BS (4-YEAR) programme in Statistics are as

Probability Concepts, Addition and Multiplication rules, bivariate frequency

STAT- 202: Basic Statistical Inference

1. Chaudhry, S.M. and Kamal, S. (2008), “Introduction to Statistical

STAT- 203: Introduction to Regression Analysis and

1. Chaudhry, S.M., and Kamal, S., (2009), “Introduction to Statistical

1. Chaudhry, S.M. and S. Kamal, (2009), “Introduction to Statistical

Introduction to Minitab, data manipulation in Minitab, graphical

1. Colin D. Gray and Paul R. Kinnear, IBM SPSS statistics 19 made

STAT- 301: Probability Distributions-I

STAT- 303: Sampling Techniques-I

1. Brewer, K. R. & Hanif, M. (1983). Sampling with Unequal Probabilities,

STAT- 307: Regression Analysis

1. Baltagi, B. H. (1999). “Econometrics”, 2nd Edition, Springer Varlog.

STAT- 305: Design and Analysis of Experiments-I

Principles of Design of Experiments, Analysis of variance and its

1. Boniface, D.R. (1995). “Experiment Design & Statistical Methods”,

STAT- 310: Non-Parametric Methods

Distribution tests and rank transformation, Kolmogrov’s test, Lilliefor’s test

STAT- 302: Probability and Probability Distributions-II

Uniform, Lognormal, Exponential, Gamma, Laplace, Rayleigh, Weibell with

1. Dekking, F. M., Kraaikamp, C., and Lopuhaae, H. P., and Meester,

STAT- 304: Sampling Techniques-II

Note: Practical’s of this course shall include visits of the students to