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Courses Handbook 2015

This handbook contains information on courses and components (majors, minors, streams and units) at Curtin in 2015.
Information for the previous year's courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2014.

STAT1002 (v.1) Statistical Data Analysis

Area: Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Credits: 12.5
Contact Hours: 3.0
TUITION PATTERNS: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Equivalent(s): 307590 (v.2) Statistical Data Analysis 101
UNIT REFERENCES, TEXTS, OUTCOMES AND ASSESSMENT DETAILS: The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Syllabus: This unit serves as an introduction to the broad world of statistics by looking at the concepts of descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. From raw data to useful information - students will learn to look at a data set from different perspectives and develop practical solutions to the associated problem. Topics that will be covered include: univariate statistics; exploratory data analysis; numerical and graphical summaries; transformations of univariate data; normal distribution and associated probability calculations; checks for normality; design of experiments; random sampling; central limit theorem; inference for single mean; inference on two means: paired case and independent case; analysis of variance; graphical evaluation and basic regression analysis of bivariate data. Students will also learn to analyse data using SPSS - a real world software package used in various disciplines and industries world-wide.
Field of Education: 010103 Statistics
Result Type: Grade/Mark


Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2015 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2015 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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