Courses Handbook 2008

305370 (v.3) Applied Agricultural Statistics 501


Area: Department of Agribusiness
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.0
** 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 2 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: Application of statistical methods for solving problems in agribusiness. Review of principles and applications of various statistical techniques. Review of statistical concepts and methods, including presentation of data calculating numerical measures oflocation and variability, sampling methods, design sample frame, and data transformation. Exploration of the relationship between experimental design and analysis, including variance (ANOVA), multivariable analysis of variance, non-parametric techniques,time series analysis, comparison of means (t-test), correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis, factor analysis, discriminate analysis and cluster analysis. Study of various techniques for analysing and presenting qualitative and quantitative data, as well as other numerical measures of univariate and multivariate statistics.
** 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: 050100 Agriculture (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Supplemental
*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
2008 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2008 Northam 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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