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Introductory Statistics for Social Science, Science, Business and Medicine (STAT10010)

Introductory Statistics for Social Science, Science, Business and Medicine (STAT10010)

General
Credits: 
5
Level: 
1
Semester: 
Semester One
Subject: 
Statistics & Actuarial Science
School: 
Mathematical Sciences
Module Coordinator: 
Dr Isobel Gormley

This module is aimed at students majoring in Social Science, Science, Business, Medicine or any other degree programme. These students may not intend to major in Statistics but would like to get some exposure to the basic concepts of data collection and analysis. Students do not need to be mathematically proficient before taking this class, the only pre-requisites are basic mathematical skills and an open mind. Topics covered:1. Statistics: The Science of data. 2. Data Sources: Sampling and Opinion Polls, Experiments and Observational Studies 3. Descriptive Statistics: Summarising data, Relationships between variables.4. Inferential Statistics: The Normal Distribution, Simple Linear Regression with applications, How to interpret Hypothesis Tests and Confidence Intervals.

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