7149 (v.7) Principles of Statistics 101


Area: Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 6.0
 
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Lecture: 2 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 2 x 1 Hours Weekly
Anti Requisite(s): 10925 (v.3) Principles of Statistics 103 or any previous version
307590 (v.1) Data Evaluation and Experimental Design 101 or any previous version
 
Syllabus: Designed for students with TEE Applicable Mathematics. Probability. Discrete and continuous random variables. Probability functions. Cumulative distribution functions. Expected values. Special distributions. Joint probability density functions. Exploratory data analysis, numerical and graphical summaries of univariate data, and transformations. Graphical evaluation of bi-variate data, normal distribution, normal calculations, and checks for normality. Experiments, random sampling, design of experiments. Central Limit Theorem. Introduction to inference for a single mean. Checking assumptions, confidence intervals and hypothesis tests using Z and T, and SPSS. Inference for one and two proportions. Chi-squared distribution - tests for independence, homogeneity, goodness of fit, inference for one and two variances. Logistic regression - fitting and interpreting the model.
 
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Field of Education: 10103 Statistics
Funding Cluster: 04 - Mathematics, Statistics
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Essential
*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
2005 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2005 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        
2005 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 1 Y        
2005 Miri Sarawak Campus Semester 2 Y        
Area
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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