Postgraduate Course: Incomplete Data Analysis (MATH11185)
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 | This course is for MSc students who already have some undergraduate level background in statistics.  
The course focuses on different techniques for dealing with missing data within a formal statistical framework. | 
 
| Course description | 
    
    Topics to be covered include:  
- types of missingness;  
- single imputation;  
- likelihood based approaches for dealing with missing data (including the EM algorithm); and  
- multiple imputation.
    
    
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites | 
 Students MUST have passed:    
Statistical Methodology (MATH10095)  
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Co-requisites |  | 
 
| Prohibited Combinations |  | 
Other requirements |  None | 
 
 
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2022/23, Not available to visiting students (SS1) 
  
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Quota:  None | 
 
| Course Start | 
Semester 2 | 
 
| Course Start Date | 
16/01/2023 | 
 
Timetable  | 
	
Timetable | 
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) | 
 
 Total Hours:
100
(
 Lecture Hours 22,
 Seminar/Tutorial Hours 5,
 Summative Assessment Hours 2,
 Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
69 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) | 
 
  Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) | 
Coursework 100% | 
 
| Feedback | 
Individual written feedback. | 
 
| No Exam Information | 
 
Learning Outcomes 
    On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
    
        - Demonstrate an understanding of the different types of missingness.
 - Demonstrate an understand different statistical techniques for dealing with missing data and associated advantages and disadvantages.
 - Demonstrate an ability to fit models to data with missing observations.
 - Demonstrate an ability to interpret the output from statistical analyses.
 -  Demonstrate an ability to use the R statistical software to implement statistical procedures that can handle missing values.
 
     
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Reading List 
Statistical Analysis with Missing Data. Little and Rubin. Wiley.  
 
Applied Missing Data Analysis. Enders. Guilford Press.  
Applied Multiple Imputation: Advantages, Pitfalls, New Developments, and Applications in R. Kleinke, Reinecke, Salfran and Spiess. Springer.  
Flexible Imputation of Missing Data. Van Buuren. Chapman & Hall/CRC Press. |   
 
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills | 
Not entered | 
 
| Special Arrangements | 
These Postgraduate Taught courses may be taken by Undergraduate students *without* requiring a concession (NB. students on Postgraduate taught programmes are given priority in the allocation of places). For all other Postgraduate Taught courses the student and/or Personal Tutor must seek a concession. | 
 
| Keywords | IDAn,Data Analysis,Statistics | 
 
 
Contacts 
| Course organiser | Dr Miguel Bras De Carvalho 
Tel: (0131 6)50 4877 
Email:  | 
Course secretary | Miss Gemma Aitchison 
Tel: (0131 6)50 9268 
Email:  | 
   
 
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