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STATS 1004 - Statistical Practice I (Life Sciences)

Career: Undergraduate
Units: 3
Term: 4110
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
4110 Mon 15/03/2021 Thu 25/03/2021 Fri 07/05/2021 Fri 11/06/2021


Class Details

Enrolment Class: Lecture
Class Nbr Section Size Available Dates Days Time Location
14021 LE01 108 7 1 Mar - 5 Apr Monday 4pm - 5pm MyUni, OL, Online Class
26 Apr - 31 May Monday 4pm - 5pm MyUni, OL, Online Class
Related Class: Computer Exercise
Class Nbr Section Size Available Dates Days Time Location
15232 CO07 16 FULL 5 Mar - 9 Apr Friday 12pm - 1pm Engineering & Mathematics, EMG13, Computer Suite
30 Apr - 4 Jun Friday 12pm - 1pm Engineering & Mathematics, EMG13, Computer Suite
Note: This class will be delivered face to face.
15233 CO06 16 FULL 2 Mar - 6 Apr Tuesday 1pm - 2pm Engineering & Mathematics, EMG13, Computer Suite
27 Apr - 1 Jun Tuesday 1pm - 2pm Engineering & Mathematics, EMG13, Computer Suite
Note: This class will be delivered face to face.
15234 CO05 16 3 2 Mar - 6 Apr Tuesday 12pm - 1pm Engineering & Mathematics, EMG13, Computer Suite
27 Apr - 1 Jun Tuesday 12pm - 1pm Engineering & Mathematics, EMG13, Computer Suite
Note: This class will be delivered face to face.
15235 CO04 16 13 4 Mar - 8 Apr Thursday 4pm - 5pm Engineering & Mathematics, EMG13, Computer Suite
29 Apr - 3 Jun Thursday 4pm - 5pm Engineering & Mathematics, EMG13, Computer Suite
Note: This class will be delivered face to face.
15236 CO03 16 FULL 2 Mar - 6 Apr Tuesday 9am - 10am Engineering & Mathematics, EMG13, Computer Suite
27 Apr - 1 Jun Tuesday 9am - 10am Engineering & Mathematics, EMG13, Computer Suite
Note: This class will be delivered face to face.
15237 CO02 16 4 4 Mar - 8 Apr Thursday 2pm - 3pm Engineering & Mathematics, EMG13, Computer Suite
29 Apr - 3 Jun Thursday 2pm - 3pm Engineering & Mathematics, EMG13, Computer Suite
Note: This class will be delivered face to face.
15238 CO01 16 4 5 Mar - 9 Apr Friday 1pm - 2pm Engineering & Mathematics, EMG13, Computer Suite
30 Apr - 4 Jun Friday 1pm - 2pm Engineering & Mathematics, EMG13, Computer Suite
Note: This class will be delivered face to face.
15253 CO08 14 1 2 Mar - 6 Apr Tuesday 5pm - 6pm MyUni, OL, Online Class
27 Apr - 1 Jun Tuesday 5pm - 6pm MyUni, OL, Online Class
Note: This class is for offshore / remote students only. Please refer to MyUni for details once enrolled.