Course Co-ordinator: Dr S Fielding

Pre-requisite(s): HE 1003

Co-requisite(s): Working knowledge of the computer, web navigation skills and WebCT.

Note(s): Only available to second year students. Not available to those students who have previously been registered for ST 1506 (Understanding Data).

This course includes the following topics:

• Descriptive statistics


• Measures of central tendency and dispersion


• Basic probability


• Probability distributions including binomial, normal distribution, student-t distribution, chi-square distribution


• Estimation using confidence intervals


• Hypothesis testing including independent t-test, paired t-test, ANOVA, correlation and chi-squared tests

The course is WebCT based with a number of supplementary teaching sessions: 4 one-hour face to face lectures, three SPSS practical sessions (1 two-hour, 2 one-hour), 2 one-hour tutorial sessions.

Additional material available through WebCT, including multiple choice quizzes to allow students to self-test their learning/knowledge.

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (60%). Continuous assessment (30%). Online particpation through WebCT quizzes (10%).

Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).