6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL
Postgraduate - Unit
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Faculty
Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Organisational Unit
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
Chief examiner(s)
Coordinator(s)
Professor Rory Wolfe
Professor A Forbes
Unit guides
Prerequisites
Co-requisites
This unit is only available to students enrolled in the Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma or Masters of Biostatistics.
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.
Assessment
Written assignments (100%)