Courses Handbook 2009

302315 (v.2) Mathematical Statistics 202


Area: Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 4.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Lecture: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 7062 (v.6) Mathematics 101 or any previous version
AND
310532 (v.1) Statistical Data Analysis 102 or any previous version
Syllabus: Review of probability axioms and probability rules, including Bayes rule; special univariate distributions; multivariate, marginal & conditional distributions; independent random variables; functions of random variables, including random sums and order statistics; Expected values, covariance and correlation, conditional expectation and moment generating function; convergence of random sequences; introduction to stochastic process (Discrete time Markov chain); distribution derived from normal distributionto study sampling distributions of sample mean and the sample variance; introduction to estimation of parameters (MLE).
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
Field of Education: 010103 Statistics
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2009 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2009 Bentley 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

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