Postgraduate Course: Probability and Statistics (MATH11008)

Course Outline
School	School of Mathematics	College	College of Science and Engineering
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	10	ECTS Credits	5
Summary	Axioms of probability, conditional probability, random variables, mean, variance, and covariance. Discrete distributions. Continuous distributions, central limit theorem. Probability and moment generating functions. Sampling distributions. Descriptive statistics; sampling; combinations of means and variances for independent data; normal distribution; binomial distribution; interval estimation and t-tests; analysis of variance; linear models; correlation and regression; prediction and multiple regression; contingency tables.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information

Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Block 1 (Sem 1)
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 100 ( Lecture Hours 20, Seminar/Tutorial Hours 5, Summative Assessment Hours 3, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 70 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 100 %, Coursework 0 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	See 'Breakdown of Assessment Methods' and 'Additional Notes' above.
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Exam Information
Exam Diet	Paper Name		Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S1 (December)	Probability and Statistics (MATH11008)		3:00

Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)		Quota: None
Course Start	Semester 1
Timetable	Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info)	Total Hours: 100 ( Lecture Hours 20, Seminar/Tutorial Hours 5, Summative Assessment Hours 3, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 70 )
Assessment (Further Info)	Written Exam 100 %, Coursework 0 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment)	See 'Breakdown of Assessment Methods' and 'Additional Notes' above.
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Exam Information
Exam Diet	Paper Name		Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S1 (December)	MSc Probability and Statistics		3:00

Learning Outcomes
Ability to solve simple probability problems; acquaintance with standard distributions. Ability to design and carry out elementary statistical tests of hypotheses and other basic inference procedures.