STAT 231: Statistics
2009 Trimester 1
| STAT 231 | CRN 1793, 22 Points (2009 1/3) | |
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| Coordinator: | Dr Yuichi Hirose |
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| Lecturer: | Dr John Haywood Prof Shirley Pledger |
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| Prerequisites: | MATH 113, 114 and STAT 131, or a comparable background in Mathematics and Statistics approved by the Head of School. Note: STAT 193 or QUAN 102 will usually be recognised as comparable to STAT 131; | |
| Restrictions: | QUAN 201 and 203 | |
| Lectures: | Mon Tue 11-12, Thu Fri 11-12 timetable | |
| Tutorials: | 1 hour per week, to be arranged | |
| Assessment: | 15% course work (assignments), 15% from term test, 70% from final exam. | |
| Course Materials: | An Introduction to R (from Student Notes), cost approximately $10. A suitable scientific calculator, cost approximately $25. | |
| Prescription: | Probability; random variables and their distribution, statistics. | |
| Description: | Topics will be chosen from: revision of basic probability theory; introduction to random variables, distributions and expectation; joint distributions, correlation and distributions of linear combinations of random variables; introduction to estimation and hypothesis testing, mainly with respect to sampling from a normal population; nonparametric methods; one-way analysis of variance; linear regression; goodness of fit tests and contingency tables. | |
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