UNDERSTANDING DATA

Course Code

ST 1505

Credit Points

20

Course Coordinator

Dr A J B Potter

Pre-requisites

S or GCSE in Mathematics or TS 1001.

Overview

Basic data handling, summarisation and visualisation – graphical displays, tabulation, cleaning data, presentation. Elements of sampling strategies. A brief introduction to probability distributions. The concepts of confidence intervals and hypothesis testing with simple examples. Relationships – correlation and regression, the idea of a statistical model. Simple time series analysis.

Structure

12 week course – 3 one-hour lectures, 1 hour tutorial and 1 one-hour computer practical per week.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (70%) and in-course assessment (30%).

Resit: 1 two hour written examination paper (maximum of 100% resit and 70% resit with 30% in-course assessment).