15 credits
Level 1
Second Term
This is a statistics course open to all first and second year students. It is a useful course for students whose degree subject involves some amount of statistical analysis. The course teaches students how to summarise data effectively and how to correctly interpret it. Among the topics covered are sampling strategies, probability theory, confidence intervals and hypothesis tests. There are also weekly computer practicals using the statistics software RStudio. The mathematical context is emphasised but students are not expected to have a high level of maths.
15 credits
Level 1
Second Term
The course emphasises the understanding and interpretation of data sets, discussing the key ideas of descriptive and inferential statistics in astronomy which can be adapted to other areas. It aims to explain how to summarise observational data graphically and numerically, to demonstrate the ideas behind probability theory, to introduce statistical inference, illustrated by examples of confidence intervals and hypothesis testing, and to show how such techniques are implemented on a computer.
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