308689 (v.1) Statistical Computing 103


Area: Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Credits: 12.5
Contact Hours: 3.0
 
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Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 7149 (v.7) Principles of Statistics 101 or any previous version
 
Syllabus: Use of Microsoft Excel in performing the following statistical procedures - exploratory data analysis, simulation of sampling distributions, test of hypotheses and confidence interval for mean, variance, inference for proportions, tests for independence and homogeneity, simple and multiple regression analysis. Integral transformation theorem and its use in simulation of random samples for different distributions. Goodness-of-fit tests for assessing appropriate models such as binomial, Poisson, exponential normal, lognormal and important life-time distributions. Introduction to visual basic programming and its applications in statistical analysis.
 
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Field of Education: 010103 Statistics
Funding Cluster: 04 - Mathematics, Statistics
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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