- Course Code
- HE 2502
- Credit Points
- 15
- Course Coordinator
- Dr S Fielding
Pre-requisites
Co-requisites
Working knowledge of the computer, web navigation skills and WebCT.
Notes
Only available to second year students. Not available to those students who have previously been registered for ST 1506 (Understanding Data).
Overview
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
Structure
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.
Assessment
1st Attempt: 1 two-hour written examination (60%). Continuous assessment (30%). Online particpation through WebCT quizzes (10%).
Resit: 1 two-hour written examination (100%).
Formative Assessment
The use of a number of multiple choice quizzes through WebCT will do this. Students are allowed as many attempts as they like and receive feedback for their answers. The marks do not count towards credits other than if they undertake all the quizzes, this goes towards their mark for online particpation.
Feedback
The WebCT quizzes have been set up so if a student answers incorrectly they are told why it is wrong and how to answer correctly.
Individual feedback will be provided for each student following submission of the assignments involved in continuous assessment. A full solution will be given alongside specific comments tailored to each student.