Statistical Methods (U01481)

? Credit Points : 10 ? SCQF Level : 8 ? Acronym : MAT-2-SMe

Core second year course for Honours Degrees including Statistics.

Syllabus summary: Descriptive statistics; scatter diagrams, correlation; sample means and variances. Statistical concepts, sampling distributions. Expectation and variance of common distributions and statistics. Introduction to estimation and hypothesis testing.

Entry Requirements

? Pre-requisites : Passes in 40 credit points of Mathematics courses (any version)

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Specialist Mathematics & Statistics (Year 2), (School of Mathematics, Schedule P)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 2nd year

? Delivery Period : Semester 1 (Blocks 1-2)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) 30 minutes per week for 11 weeks

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
21/09/2006	14:00	14:50	Lecture Theatre A, JCMB	KB

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Monday	14:00	14:50	KB
Lecture	Thursday	14:00	14:50	KB

? Additional Class Information : Tutorials at times to be arranged

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

1. Knowledge of common descriptive statistical procedures, and how they can be implemented in a statistical package.
2. Understanding of randomness and, in particular, sampling distributions.
3. Ability to conduct simple inferential procedures and to exercise diagnostic and interpretative skills.