Module Identifier | MA26510 | ||
Module Title | STATISTICAL METHODS | ||
Academic Year | 2000/2001 | ||
Co-ordinator | Dr J A Lane | ||
Semester | Semester 1 | ||
Pre-Requisite | MA11310 | ||
Mutually Exclusive | MX36510 | ||
Course delivery | Lecture | 11 x 1hour lectures | |
Practical | 11 x 2 hour practical classes | ||
Assessment | Exam | 3 Hours (practical examination) | 60% |
Course work | 40% | ||
Resit assessment | 3 Hours (practical examination) | 100% |
General description
There is an increasing demand in the workplace for personnel skilled in the routine analysis and interpretation of data. This module covers the basic skills of a practising statistician and includes also the preparation of reports.
Aims
This module will give students a thorough grounding in the methods used by a practical statistician.
Learning outcomes
On completion of this module, a student should be able to:
Syllabus
1. BASIC IDEAS: Interpretation of data presented in numerical and graphical forms. Standard errors of means, proportions, sums and differences.
2. CONFIDENCE STATEMENTS: Construction and interpretation of confidence limits for means, rates and proportions. Confidence limits for the difference between parameters.
3. HYPOTHESIS TESTING: Hypothesis tests; interpretation of p-values. Paired and unpaired two sample tests.
4. NONPARAMETRIC METHODS: Use of non-parametric and distribution-free significance tests for paired and unpaired data.
5. STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL: Basic ideas.
6. LINEAR REGRESSION: Fitting straight lines; estimation and tests for slope and intercept. Prediction.
Reading Lists
Books
** Recommended Text
F Daly, D J Hand, M C Jones, A D Lunn & K J McConway.
Elements of Statistics. Addison Wesley
** Supplementary Text
W Mendenhall, D D Wackerly & R L Scheaffer.
Mathematical Statistics with Applications. PWS-Kent