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
    OR
    10926 (v.5) Mathematics 103 or any previous version
AND
    7063 (v.6) Mathematics 102 or any previous version
    OR
    7492 (v.5) Mathematics 104 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        

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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