| NMAC17 | Statistical Theory , 4,5 ECTS credits. /Statistisk teori/ |
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Prel. scheduled
hours: 56 |
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Area of Education: Science Subject area: Mathematics |
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| Advancement level
(A-D): C
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| Aim: The course is intended to teach the students how to use statistical theory and to analyse and interpret data from random experiments. |
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| Prerequisites: (valid for students admitted to programmes within which the course is offered) Calculus, matrix algebra and a first course in proability theory. Note: Admission requirements for non-programme students usually also include admission requirements for the programme and threshhold requirements for progression within the programme, or corresponding. |
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| Supplementary courses: NMAC18 Statistical Methods in Mathematical Models. |
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| Organisation: Teaching consists of lectures, lessons and obligatory computer exercises. |
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| Course contents: Point estimation according to the methods of moments, maximum likelihood and least squares. Chi-square, t- and F-distributions. Confidence intervals for the cases with one or several samples from the normal distribution and for cases where normal approximations are used. Hypothesis testing. Chi-square tests. Random vectors. Multivariate normal distribution. Multiple linear regression. Descriptive statistics. |
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| Course literature: Please contact the department of mathematical statistics for information. |
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| Written examination Computer exercises |
2,5 p 0,5 p |
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Course language is Swedish. Department offering the course: MAI. Director of Studies: Eva Enqvist Examiner: Per Gösta Andersson Link to the course homepage at the department Course Syllabus in Swedish |
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