UNSW Handbook Course - Introduction to Statistics and Statistical Computations

Introduction to Statistics and Statistical Computations - MATH5856


	Faculty: Faculty of Science
	School: School of Mathematics
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Postgraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
	Contact Hours per Week: 2
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Corequisite: MATH5846
	Session Offered: See Class Timetable
	Fee Band: 2 (more info)

Description

The aim of this course is to learn about the basic principles of statistical reasoning and the most important methods to estimate unknown parameters of the observed system, to take decisions without complete information and to use statistical packages. In particular, we discuss methods to visualise the data, to simulate some random phenomena using random numbers generators, to estimate parameters using Maximum Likelihood and Least Squares Estimators and to test hypotheses. The general linear models are studied in more detail using SAS and SPLUS.

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