COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR TUĞBA YILDIZ

Offered to

Statistics (English)
STATISTICS (ENGLISH)
Statistics (English)

Course Objective

This course aimed introducing students to the basic theory of ordered random variables. A prime objective of this introduction to order statistics to make students to learn fundemantal elements and practices of order statistics, to form distributions of order statistics and to obtain probability distributions for both discrete and continuous ordered statistical data sets. Also, students will learn how to use order statistics in statistical inference. Also, ranked set sampling technique which is based on order statistics will be studied. Different papers about ranked set sampling will be investigated.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

1. B. C. Arnold, N. Balakrishnan, H. N. Nagaraja, A First Course in Order Statistics, Wiley, 1992.
2. M. Ahsanullah and V. B. Nevzorov, Order Statistics: Examples and Exercises, Nova Science, NewYork, 2005.
3. Chen, Z., Bai, Zhidong and Sinha, B.K., Ranked set Sampling, Theory and Applications, Springer, NewYork, 2003

Supplementary Book(s):
H. A. David, H. N. Nagaraja, Order Statistics, Wiley, 2003

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, homework assignments, presentation

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Evaluation of homework assignments, presentation, class participation and examinations.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

Attendance to at least 70% for the lectures is an essential requirement of this course and is the responsibility of the student. It is necessary that attendance to the lecture and homework delivery must be on time. Any unethical behavior that occurs either in presentations or in exams will be dealt with as outlined in school policy. You can find the undergraduate policy at http://web.deu.edu.tr/fen

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tuğba YILDIZ
DEU, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Statistics
e-mail: tugba.ozkal@deu.edu.tr
Tel: 0232 301 85 96

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes