Course curriculum
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1: Why Islamic Approach?
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1A: Introduction: Relevance of Islamic Approach
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1A: Quiz
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1B: Purpose: The Heart of an Islamic Approach
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1B: Quiz
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1C: Difference between Islamic and Western Conceptions of Knowledge
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1C: Quiz
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1D: Islamic Pedagogical Principles: Engaging Head and Heart
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1D: Quiz
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1E: SUPPLEMENT: (URDU) Real Statistics: An Islamic Approach
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1F: SUPPLEMENT: Comprehensive Review (Optional, Supplements for Teachers)
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2
2: Comparing Numbers
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2A: Introduction to Comparing Numbers for a Purpose
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2A: Quiz
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2B: Arbitrariness of Rankings
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2B: Quiz
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2C: What Do College Rankings Mean?
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2C: Quiz
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2D: Goodhart's Law
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2D: Quiz
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2E: Values Embodied in Choice of Factors and Weights for Rankings
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2E: Quiz
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2F: The WHY of Global Corruption Rankings
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2F: Quiz
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3: Life Expectancies
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3A: Introduction to Life Expectancies
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3A: Quiz
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3B: Computing Life Expectancy from Mortality Tables
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3C: Analyzing World Bank WDI Data Set on Life Expectancies
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3D: Histograms for World Bank Life Expectancy Data
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3E Histograms with Varying Bin Sizes
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3F Percentage or Probability Histograms
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4: Reducing Data to One Number
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4A: Why an "Islamic Approach"?
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4B Inflation: Reducing Data to ONE Number
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4C: The Sensitive Price Index and Inflation
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4D: Composite Commodities: Laspayre's and Paasche Indices
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4E Big Data: Many Inflations
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4F: Inflation as a Macroeconomic Concept, in context of Quantity Theory of Money
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4G Quantity Theory of Money: Failure on Australian Data
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5: Eugenics and the Creation of Statistics
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5A Malthusian Approach to Poverty
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5B: Sir Francis Galton: Eugenicist Founder of Statistics
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5C: Fisher's Failings and the Foundations of Statistics
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5D: Real Statistics: Alternative to Fisher's Approach
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5E: Contrasts between Fisher's Approach and Real Statistics: The Case of Inflation
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6: Five Quartile Summaries of Stochastic Relationships
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6A: Do the Wealthy Have Fewer Children?
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6B: Quartiles as Natural Data Summaries
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6C Stochastic Relationships
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6D Evolution of Distribution of Infant Mortality (IM) across time
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6E Comparing Progress of Countries on Infant Mortality
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6F Comparisons, Benchmarks, and Confounding Factors
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7: Assessing Association Between Two Series
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7A Exports & Growth Part 1
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7B: Failure of Exports-Led Growth Hypothesis
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7C: The Association between Income and Consumption
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7D: Testing a Coin for Fairness
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7E: Comparing Growth Rates
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8
8: Probabilities, Binomials, and p-values
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8A: A New Definition of Probability
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8B Rules of Probability
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9
9: Some Applications
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8A Assessing the Salk Vaccine for Polic
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8B Discovering Causes & Differentiating them from Correlates
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8C: Do Cigarettes Cause Cancer?
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8D The GNP Illusion
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8E Causes of Global Financial Crisis: House of Debt
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10: Causal Analysis & Path Diagrams
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9A: Common Cause and Correlation
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