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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

310534 (v.1) Statistical Data Analysis 502

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
Syllabus: Probability. Discrete and Continuous Probability Distributions. Joint probability distributions and distribution of some simple functions such as linear and quadratic functions of random variables. Mathematical expectation. Some discrete probability models and their mean and variance. Functions of random variables. Inference for proportions. Chi-square and F-distributions. Inference for one and two variances. Goodness of fit. Tests for independence and homogeneity.
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.
Field of Education: 010103 Statistics
Result Type: Grade/Mark

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