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Economic and Business Statistics ( STAT1520)
Semester: 2 Campus: CRAWLEY
Semester: 2 Campus: CRAWLEY
| Availability: Semester 1, Semester 2 (See Timetable) Old unit code: STAT1106 | |||
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Description This unit covers basic statistics and is compulsory for all Bachelor of Economics and Bachelor of Commerce students. Topics include displaying and summarising data; random variables and their distributions; normal and binomial distributions; sampling distributions and hypothesis testing; confidence intervals; t-tests and F-tests; regression and correlation; goodness of fit; chi-square tests; and introduction to analysis of variance. Use of statistical packages is an integral part of the unit and emphasis is placed on examples of particular relevance to economics and commerce students. For more info see the Handbook: http://handbooks.uwa.edu.au/units/stat/stat1520 | |||
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Assessment This comprises an end-of-semester examination and in-semester tests or assignments. All assessment tasks require students to apply their knowledge of the unit content to solve previously unseen problems. Credit is given for clarity and correctness of presentation as well as for actual results.Supplementary assessment is not available in this unit except in the case of a bachelor's degree student who has obtained a mark of 45 to 49 and is currently enrolled in this unit, and it is the only remaining unit that the student must pass in order to complete the course. |
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