6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL
Undergraduate - Unit
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Faculty
Organisational Unit
Department of Civil Engineering
Chief examiner(s)
Coordinator(s)
Dr Valentijn Pauwels
(Clayton)
Dr Suvash Chandra Paul
(Malaysia)
Unit guides
Synopsis
Systematic approaches to engineering data collection, analysis and interpretation. The Scope covers data description and presentation, randomness, discrete probability, continuous probability, conditional probability, Bayes' Theorem, normal distribution, sampling distributions, point estimation, interval estimation, hypothesis testing, linear regression.
Outcomes
At the successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Apply statistical theory to problems frequently encountered by civil engineers.
- Analyse and interpret large data sets and present the summary.
- Design and conduct experiments using statistical methods.
- Formulate hypotheses and test them to come to a conclusion.
- Predict random processes through time series analysis.
Assessment
Continuous assessment: 40%
Examination: (2 hours) 60%
Students are required to achieve at least 45% in the total continuous assessment component and at least 45% in the final examination component and an overall mark of 50% to achieve a pass grade in the unit. Students failing to achieve this requirement will be given a maximum of 45% in the unit.
Workload requirements
2 hours lecture, 2 hours practical and 8 hours private study per week.
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