Statistical methods
A Sudbury
6 points
* Three 1-hour lectures per week and one 1-hour tutorial
*
First, second, summer semester - Clayton
* Prerequisites: At levels 3 and
4, VCE Mathematical Methods
* Prohibitions: CSC1080, GAS1631, MAT1372,
MAT1711, MAT1722, MAT1841
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: 80%
* Assignments/tests: 20%
Prescribed texts
Moore D S and McCabe G P Introduction to the practice of statistics 2nd edn, Freeman, 1993
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