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STATS 1004UAC - Statistical Practice I (Life Sciences)

Career: Non-Award
Units: 3
Term: 4010
Campus: University of Adelaide College
Restriction: Only available to University of Adelaide College students
Available for Study Abroad and Exchange: No
Available for Non-Award Study: No
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.

Course Fees

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Course Outline

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Critical Dates

Term Last Day to Add Online Census Date Last Day to WNF Last Day to WF
4010 Mon 16/03/2020 Thu 26/03/2020 Fri 12/06/2020 Not Available


Class Details

Enrolment Class: Lecture
Class Nbr Section Size Available Dates Days Time Location
18962 LE01 5 4 2 Mar - 6 Apr Monday 2pm - 3pm The Braggs, G60, Bragg Lecture Theatre
4 Mar - 8 Apr Wednesday 10am - 11am Darling West, G14, Darling West Lecture Theatre
6 Mar - 10 Apr Friday 1pm - 2pm The Braggs, G60, Bragg Lecture Theatre
27 Apr - 8 Jun Monday 2pm - 3pm The Braggs, G60, Bragg Lecture Theatre
29 Apr - 10 Jun Wednesday 10am - 11am Darling West, G14, Darling West Lecture Theatre
1 May - 12 Jun Friday 1pm - 2pm The Braggs, G60, Bragg Lecture Theatre
Related Class: Laboratory
Class Nbr Section Size Available Dates Days Time Location
18961 LA01 5 4 5 Mar - 9 Apr Thursday 11am - 12pm Engineering & Mathematics, EMG13, Computer Suite
30 Apr - 11 Jun Thursday 11am - 12pm Engineering & Mathematics, EMG13, Computer Suite