MAT1060

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