Dr James Abdey COL.5.10

This course is available to General Course ‘Spring Semester’ students conditional on having studied Michaelmas term content remotely. Note ST102 is part-examined in January.

A-level Mathematics.

 

No previous knowledge of statistics is assumed.

The course provides a precise and accurate treatment of introductory probability theory, statistical ideas, methods and techniques.  Topics covered are data visualisation and descriptive statistics, probability theory, random variables, common distributions of random variables, multivariate random variables, sampling distributions of statistics, point estimation, interval estimation, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance (ANOVA), linear regression, nonparametric tests, goodness-of-fit and independence tests. 

This course will be delivered through a combination of classes, lectures and workshops totalling a minimum of 90 hours across Michaelmas Term and Lent Term. This year, some or all of this teaching may be delivered through a combination of virtual classes and flipped-lectures/workshops delivered as short online videos. This course does not include reading weeks.

Weekly exercises will be set and students are expected to submit solutions to their class teacher each week for feedback. 

All course materials are made available via Moodle, including notes to accompany the lectures, but this can be supplemented with additional background reading. The recommended supplementary text is:

Larsen R.J. and M.L. Marx (2013) Introduction to Mathematical Statistics and Its Applications (fifth edition), Pearson (earlier editions are also fine).

Exam (75%, duration: 3 hours) in the summer exam period.
Online assessment (25%) in January.

Department: Statistics

Total students 2019/20: Unavailable

Average class size 2019/20: Unavailable

Capped 2019/20: No

Value: Half Unit