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Introduction to Statistics and Statistical Computations - MATH5856
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Faculty: Faculty of Science
 
 
School:  School of Mathematics and Statistics
 
 
Course Outline: http://www.maths.unsw.edu.au/
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Corequisite: MATH5846
 
 
Fee Band: 5 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

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 statistical packages.

Pre-requisites: 24 units of level III mathematics or a degree in a numerate discipline or permission of the Head of Department.

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