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Quick reference to week 6 and 11 planned activities
(MT = Michaelmas term; LT = Lent term)
ST102 Elementary Statistical Theory (MT / LT)
Week 11 to include finishing off new material or revision.
ST107 Quantitative Methods (Statistics) (LT)
Week 11 to include finishing off new material or revision.
ST108 Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences (MT / LT)
Students will have a two-hour computer workshop in week 6 (MT); Reading week (LT).
ST201 Statistical Models and Data Analysis (LT)
Students will be given their assessed project to start on in week 6 (due at the end of LT).
ST202 Probability, Distribution Theory and Inference (MT / LT)
Week 6 in both terms will be used for class tests.
ST203 Statistics for Management Sciences (MT / LT)Students to work on first assessed assignment in week 6 of MT – no lectures or classes that week. Students will be given their assessed project to start on in week 6 of LT (due at the end of LT).
ST205 Sample Surveys and Experiments (MT)Students to work on first assessed assignment in week 6 of MT – no lectures or classes that week.
ST211 Applied Regression (LT)
Students will be given their assessed project to start on in week 6 (due at the end of LT).
ST226 Actuarial Investigations: Financial (MT)
There either be a reading week and a take home mock exam in week 6 or a reading week focusing on the relation of the course to real life applications (students will decide).
ST227 Survival Models (LT)
Students on this course will have a reading week in week 6 where they will be given review exercises to work on based on the first 5 weeks of the course.
ST300 Regression and Generalised Linear Models (MT / LT)
Week 6 reading week in MT will be for revision of taught materials, while week 6 reading week in LT will be for project completion.
ST301 Actuarial Mathematics (Life) (LT)
Week 6 will be a reading week.
ST302 Stochastics Processes (MT)
Week 6 will be a reading week left free for students to revise by themselves.
ST303 Stochastic Simulation (LT)
Students will be given their assessed project to start on in week 6 (due at the end of LT).
ST304 Time Series and Forecasting (LT)
There will be a reading week in week 6.
ST306 Actuarial Mathematics (General) (MT)
There will be a reading week and a take home mock exam in week 6.
ST307 Aspects of Market Research (MT)
ST307 lectures will run in weeks 1-10, with classes in weeks 2-11, bringing forward the class previously held in week 1 of the LT to week 11 of the MT.
ST308 Bayesian Inference (LT)
There will be a reading week in week 6.
ST312 Applied Statistics Project (MT)
Students on this course will have a research week in week 6 where they can look up data sources for their assess project.
ST327 Market Research: An Integrated Approach
ST327 lectures will run in weeks 1-10, with classes in weeks 2-11, bringing forward the class previously held in week 1 of the LT to week 11 of the MT.
ST330 Sochastic and Actuarial methods in Finance (MT / LT)
Student to work on and submit formative coursework (hand-in exercises) in week 11 of the MT. A revision session will take place in week 11 of the LT.
ST405 Multivariate Methods (LT)
Week 6 will be used as a reading week.
ST409 Stochastic Processes (MT)
Week 6 will be used as a reading week.
ST411 Generalised Linear Modelling and Survival Analysis (LT)
Week 6 will be used as a reading week.
ST416 Multilevel Modelling (LT)
Week 6 will be used as a reading week.
ST418 Nonlinear Dynamics and the Analysis of Real Time Series (LT)
Week 6 will be used as a reading week.
ST421 Developments in Statistical Methods (LT)
Week 6 will be used as a reading week.
ST422 Time Series (MT)
Exercises will be given out to do at home during week 6.
ST426 Applied Stochastic Processes (LT)
Week 6 will be used as a reading week; exercises will be given out to students to do at home.
ST427 Insurance Mathematics (MT)
An informal 'open book' mid-term practice examination will take place in week 6.
ST429 Probabilistic Methods in Risk Management and Insurance (LT)
An informal 'open book' mid-term practice examination will take place in week 6.
ST433 Computational Methods in Finance and Insurance (MT / LT)
Week 6 will be used as a reading week.
ST435 Advanced Probability Theory (MT)
Week 6 will be used as a reading/revision week.
ST436 Financial Statistics (LT)
Students will work on an extended case study in week 11.
ST439 Stochastics for Derivatives Modelling (LT)
During week 6 students will carry out group work, solving problems that will have been set in an earlier class.
ST440 Recent Developments in Finance and Insurance (MT / LT)
Duting week 6 students will be required to give group presentations using material which will have been provided in week 1 or 2. They will also discuss in groups solutions to problems that will have been set in class.
ST442 Longitudinal Data Analysis (LT)
Week 6 will be used as a reading week.
ST443 Machine Learning and Data Mining (LT)
Week 6 will be used as a reading week and exercises will be given out to students to work through at home.
ST444 Statistical Computing (MT)
To be confirmed.