| Credit |
6 points |
| Availability |
Semester 1, Semester 2 |
| Old unit code |
535.106, STAT1106 |
| Outcomes |
Students are able to appreciate the power of statistical concepts in the interpretation of data; develop knowledge of fundamental statistical tools and computer packages for applying these tools; recognise the appropriate statistical techniques for use in particular real-world settings, and correctly apply these techniques for data analysis; communicate effectively the results of these analyses; undertake continuous learning and realise that understanding the fundamentals is necessary for effective application. |
| Content |
This unit covers basic statistics and is compulsory for all Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Commerce students. Topics include displaying and summarising data; random variables and their distributions; normal and binomial distributions; sampling distributions and hypothesis testing; confidence intervals; t-tests and F-tests; regression and correlation; goodness of fit; chi-square tests; and introduction to analysis of variance. Use of statistical packages is an integral part of the unit and emphasis is placed on examples of particular relevance to economics and commerce students. |
| Assessment |
This comprises an end-of-semester examination and in-semester tests or assignments. All assessment tasks require students to apply their knowledge of the unit content to solve previously unseen problems. Credit is given for clarity and correctness of presentation as well as for actual results.
Supplementary assessment is not available in this unit except in the case of a bachelor's pass degree student who has obtained a mark of 45 to 49 and is currently enrolled in this unit, and it is the only remaining unit that the student must pass in order to complete the course. |
| Location |
UWA (Crawley) |
| Mode |
on-campus |
| Unit Rules |
| Prerequisites: TEE Applicable Mathematics or TEE Calculus or ECON1111 Quantitative Methods for Business and Economics |
| Incompatibility: STAT1510 Statistics A, STAT1530 Statistics B, STAT1160 Statistics A, STAT1123 Statistics B, STAT1106 Economic and Business Statistics, STAT2210 Biometrics 1, MATH1020 Calculus, Statistics and Probability |
| Approved quota: 320 in Semester 1 |
Contact hours—78 (lectures: 4 hrs per week; tutorials: 1 hr per week; practice classes: 1 hr per week)
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| Unit web page |
http://www.maths.uwa.edu.au/Units
[Some unit web pages are still under construction and will be available in 2010.]
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