Postgraduate - UnitEPM5014 - Probability and distribution theory

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Organisational Unit	Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Offered	Alfred Hospital First semester 2015 (Off-campus) Alfred Hospital Second semester 2015 (Off-campus)
Coordinator(s)	Professor Rory Wolfe

Synopsis

This unit involves the study of basic probability and calculus-based methods of underpinning probability distributions and parameter estimation.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this unit, students should be able to:

Demonstrate an understanding of the meaning and laws of probability;
Recognise common probability distributions and their properties;
Apply calculus-based tools to derive key features of a probability distribution, such as mean and variance;
Manipulate multivariate probability distributions to obtain marginal and conditional distributions;
Obtain mean, variance and the probability distribution of transformations of random variables;
Understand properties of parameter estimators and the usefulness of large sample approximations in statistics;
Appreciate the role of simulation in demonstrating and explaining statistical concepts.