UNSW Handbook Course - Data Management for Statistical Analysis

Data Management for Statistical Analysis - MATH2871


	Faculty: Faculty of Science
	School: School of Mathematics and Statistics
	Course Outline: http://www.maths.unsw.edu.au/
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
	Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 4
	Enrolment Requirements:
	Prerequisite: MATH1041 or ECON1203 or ECON2292 or PSYC2001 or MATH1231 or MATH1241 or MATH1251 or equivalent.
	CSS Contribution Charge:Band 5 (more info)
	Tuition Fee:See Tuition Fee Schedule
	Further Information: See Class Timetable

Description

The course covers the use of database and spreadsheet tools to organise and query statistical data, programming in an advanced statistical package for file management, data manipulation and cleaning; methods for data screening, cleaning, graphical displays and data analysis using a range of statistical procedures; creation of data analysis reports using modern statistical and graphical methods.

The course is based around Microsoft Access and Excel as well as the SAS statistical analysis system and programming tools. Knowledge and skills developed will be generic and applicable to a range of modern statistical software tools.

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