Course Title: Analyse data and report results

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C5152

Course Title: Analyse data and report results

Portfolio: SET

Nominal Hours: 80.0

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Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

ISYS7548L

City Campus

TAFE

155T Life & Physical Sciences

Face-to-Face


Course Contact: Raymond Rozen

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4699

Course Contact Email: rar@rmit.edu.au


Course Description

Descriptive statistics, mean and standard deviation of both grouped and ungrouped data, mode, median, permutation and combinations, Probability, addition theorem mutually exclusive and independent events, conditional probability, Bayes Theorem Expectation, Binomial, Hypergeometric, Poisson and Normal Distributions, Confidence Intervals ( large samples ),
The Central Limit Theorem, Sums of Normal Variables, Confidence Intervals ( small samples ) the student T distributions, Hypothesis Testing, decisions, null and alternative hypotheses, acceptance and rejection regions, one and two sided alternative significance levels. Two Sample Hypothesis Testing. Regression Analysis.


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None



National Competency Codes and Titles

National Element Code & Title:

PMLDATA500A Analyse Data,Report Results 02/2

Elements:

Analyse trends and relationships in data

Check for aberrant results

Determine variation and uncertainty in data distributions

Perform laboratory computations

Report results


Learning Outcomes


Overview of Assessment

The student must demonstrate an understanding of all elements of a particular competency to be deemed competent. Assessment methods have been designed to measure achievement of each competency in a flexible manner over a range of assessment tasks.
Assessment will incorporate a variety of methods including online or written tests.