MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Computing & Information Technology Handbook 1996

Published by Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

MAT1060

Statistical methods

A Sudbury

6 points + Three 1-hour lectures per week and one 1-hour tutorial + First, second semester - Clayton + Second semester - Caulfield + Prerequisites: At levels 3 and 4, VCE Mathematical Methods + Prohibitions: CSC1080, GAS1631, MAT1372, MAT1711, MAT1722

Objectives On completion of this subject, students should have developed skills in presenting and summarising data, confidence intervals, and applying statistical tests of hypotheses; understand the meaning and importance of population and sample statistics, and the statistical tests studied; and be able to analyse data using MINITAB.

Synopsis Descriptive statistics, scatter plots, correlation, line of best fit. Elementary probability theory. Confidence intervals and hypothesis tests using normal, t and binomial distributions. Use of MINITAB.

Assessment Examinations (2 hours): 85% + Assignments (2): 10% + Test: 5%

Prescribed texts

Moore D S and McCabe G P Introduction to the practice of statistics 2nd edn, Freeman, 1993

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