Timetable
Lectures will be held on Monday 11am, Tuesday 11am and Wednesday 1pm in
Carslaw 351.
The computer class will be held
Wednesday 3pm in Carslaw 610.
The tutorial for STAT2912 will be Tuesday
2pm in Carslaw 451.
All classes begin in Week 1.
Lecture Notes The lecture slides will be
available in booklet form from KOPYSTOP.
The noticeboard for Intermediate
Statistics units of study is on level 8 Carslaw, opposite the lifts.
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reference and check it regularly for new items.
Assignments There will be 2
assignments due on 27 August and 15 October.
Assessment The assignments will count
10% towards the final mark. There will be a quiz held in the lecture on
15 September counting 5%. The weekly computer classes will contribute
10% of the final grade and there will be a computer practical assessment (open
book) in the computer laboratory class on 29 October which will also
contribute 10%. The final 2 hour examination in November will count 65%.
Students are allowed to take one A4 sheet of handwritten notes into the
examination. You may write on both sides of the sheet.
Course work and course material
Statistical tables will be provided. Please bring these to all tutorial
classes.
Reference books.
Rice, J.A. (2007) Mathematical Statistics and Data Analysis, 3rd
Ed, Duxbury.
Wackerly, D. , Mendenhall, W. and Scheaffer, R. (2002) Mathematical
Statistics with Applications, 6th ed, Duxbury.
- Tutorial and computer class sheets.
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PDF documents are displayed and or that they have problems
printing PDF files. Some typical problems and solutions are given
here.
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