SSC CGL Paper-II Statistics Syllabus 2026
Current Tier-II Paper-II statistics topics for Junior Statistical Officer (JSO) and Statistical Investigator Grade-II candidates. Track progress through the topic checklist.
Data Collection & Presentation
Central Tendency & Dispersion
Moments, Correlation & Probability
- Moments: Raw moments, Central moments, Sheppard's correction
- Meaning of skewness, kurtosis, and measures
- Scatter diagram, Simple correlation coefficient, Regression lines
- Linear Regression & Correlation (Statistical Investigator & JSO)
- Spearman's rank correlation & Association of attributes
- Probability: Classical, empirical, conditional, Bayes' theorem
Distributions & Sampling
- Random variable: expectation, variance, joint distribution
- Binomial, Poisson, Normal, Exponential distributions
- Population vs Sample & Parameter vs Statistic
- Sampling & non-sampling errors
- Simple random, stratified, systematic, cluster sampling
- Multistage, multiphase, purposive, convenience sampling