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STATS 1004 - Statistical Practice I (Life Sciences)

Career: Undergraduate
Units: 3
Term: 3610
Campus: North Terrace
Contact: Up to 3 hours per week
Restriction: Not available to BMaSc or BMaSc (Adv) students
Available for Study Abroad and Exchange: Yes
Available for Non-Award Study: Yes
Assumed Knowledge: SACE Stage 2 Mathematical Methods
Incompatible: MATHS 2107, STATS 1000, STATS 1005, ECON 1008, STATS 1504
Assessment: Ongoing assessment, exam
Syllabus:

Statistical ideas and methods are essential tools in virtually all areas that rely on data to make decisions and reach conclusions. This includes diverse fields such as science, technology, government, commerce, manufacturing and the life sciences. In broad terms, statistics is about getting information from data. This includes both the important question of how to obtain suitable data for a given purpose and also how best to extract the information, often in the presence of random variability. This course provides an introduction to the contemporary application of statistics to a range of real world situations. It has a strong practical focus using the statistical package R to analyse real data relevant to the life sciences. Topics covered are: organisation, description and presentation of data in the life sciences; design of experiments and surveys; random variables, probability distributions, the binomial distribution and the normal distribution; statistical inference, tests of significance, confidence intervals; inference for means and proportions, one-sample tests, two independent samples, paired data, t-tests, contingency tables; analysis of variance; linear regression, least squares estimation, residuals and transformations, inference for regression coefficients, prediction.

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Critical Dates

Term Last Day to Add Online Census Date Last Day to WNF Last Day to WF
3610 Mon 14/03/2016 Thu 31/03/2016 Fri 06/05/2016 Fri 10/06/2016


Class Details

Enrolment Class: Tutorial
Class Nbr Section Size Available Dates Days Time Location
12760 TU02 25 2 29 Feb - 4 Apr Monday 2pm - 3pm Barr Smith South, 3022, Polygon Lecture Theatre
25 Apr - 6 Jun Monday 2pm - 3pm Barr Smith South, 3022, Polygon Lecture Theatre
12761 TU03 25 3 2 Mar - 6 Apr Wednesday 11am - 12pm Barr Smith South, 3022, Polygon Lecture Theatre
27 Apr - 8 Jun Wednesday 11am - 12pm Barr Smith South, 3022, Polygon Lecture Theatre
12762 TU05 25 8 1 Mar - 5 Apr Tuesday 4pm - 5pm Hughes, 309, Hughes Lecture Theatre
26 Apr - 7 Jun Tuesday 4pm - 5pm Hughes, 309, Hughes Lecture Theatre
13046 TU01 25 1 1 Mar - 5 Apr Tuesday 1pm - 2pm Engineering Sth, S111, Teaching Room
26 Apr - 7 Jun Tuesday 1pm - 2pm Engineering Sth, S111, Teaching Room
13047 TU04 25 3 2 Mar - 6 Apr Wednesday 10am - 11am Napier, G03, Lecture Theatre
27 Apr - 8 Jun Wednesday 10am - 11am Napier, G03, Lecture Theatre
13048 TU06 25 2 29 Feb - 4 Apr Monday 3pm - 4pm Barr Smith South, 3022, Polygon Lecture Theatre
25 Apr - 6 Jun Monday 3pm - 4pm Barr Smith South, 3022, Polygon Lecture Theatre
Related Class: Lecture
Class Nbr Section Size Available Dates Days Time Location
13028 LE01 150 19 29 Feb - 4 Apr Monday 1pm - 2pm The Braggs, G60, Bragg Lecture Theatre
2 Mar - 6 Apr Wednesday 12pm - 1pm The Braggs, G60, Bragg Lecture Theatre
4 Mar - 8 Apr Friday 1pm - 2pm The Braggs, G60, Bragg Lecture Theatre
25 Apr - 6 Jun Monday 1pm - 2pm The Braggs, G60, Bragg Lecture Theatre
27 Apr - 8 Jun Wednesday 12pm - 1pm The Braggs, G60, Bragg Lecture Theatre
29 Apr - 10 Jun Friday 1pm - 2pm The Braggs, G60, Bragg Lecture Theatre
Related Class: Laboratory
Class Nbr Section Size Available Dates Days Time Location
13040 LA01 21 2 4 Mar - 8 Apr Friday 9am - 10am Engineering & Mathematics, EMG13, Computer Suite
29 Apr - 10 Jun Friday 9am - 10am Engineering & Mathematics, EMG13, Computer Suite
13041 LA02 17 1 4 Mar - 8 Apr Friday 10am - 11am Engineering & Mathematics, EMG13, Computer Suite
29 Apr - 10 Jun Friday 10am - 11am Engineering & Mathematics, EMG13, Computer Suite
13042 LA03 21 2 4 Mar - 8 Apr Friday 11am - 12pm Engineering & Mathematics, EMG13, Computer Suite
29 Apr - 10 Jun Friday 11am - 12pm Engineering & Mathematics, EMG13, Computer Suite
13043 LA04 20 5 2 Mar - 6 Apr Wednesday 5pm - 6pm Engineering & Mathematics, EMG13, Computer Suite
27 Apr - 8 Jun Wednesday 5pm - 6pm Engineering & Mathematics, EMG13, Computer Suite
13044 LA05 21 1 2 Mar - 6 Apr Wednesday 1pm - 2pm Engineering & Mathematics, EMG13, Computer Suite
27 Apr - 8 Jun Wednesday 1pm - 2pm Engineering & Mathematics, EMG13, Computer Suite
13045 LA06 15 2 2 Mar - 6 Apr Wednesday 2pm - 3pm Engineering & Mathematics, EMG13, Computer Suite
27 Apr - 8 Jun Wednesday 2pm - 3pm Engineering & Mathematics, EMG13, Computer Suite
13971 LA08 20 5 2 Mar - 6 Apr Wednesday 4pm - 5pm Engineering & Mathematics, EMG13, Computer Suite
27 Apr - 8 Jun Wednesday 4pm - 5pm Engineering & Mathematics, EMG13, Computer Suite
15071 LA07 16 2 2 Mar - 6 Apr Wednesday 3pm - 4pm Engineering & Mathematics, EMG13, Computer Suite
27 Apr - 8 Jun Wednesday 3pm - 4pm Engineering & Mathematics, EMG13, Computer Suite