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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

307590 (v.2) Statistical Data Analysis 101

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Tuition Patterns

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Unit references, texts and outcomes

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Area: Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Credits: 12.5
Contact Hours: 3.0
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: Exploratory data analysis: numerical and graphical summaries, and transformations of univariate data; graphical evaluation and basic regression analysis of bi-variate data; probability calculations for normal distribution and checks for normality; design of experiments, different types of random sampling; central limit theorem; confidence intervals and hypothesis tests for single mean, two means and variances; checking assumptions; interference for more than two means: analysis of variance. The package SPPS will be used to perform most of the statistical analysis covered in this unit.
Field of Education: 010101 Mathematics
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        
2012 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 1 Y        
2012 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External