MA50259: Statistical design of investigations
Academic Year: | 2019/0 |
Owning Department/School: | Department of Mathematical Sciences |
Credits: | 6 [equivalent to 12 CATS credits] |
Notional Study Hours: | 120 |
Level: | Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7) |
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Assessment Summary: | CW 100% |
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Requisites: | Before taking this module you must take XX50215 |
Description: | Aims: To understand the statistical aspects of the design of experimental and observational studies, and the associated methods of statistical analysis. Learning Outcomes: * Understand the principles of experimental design and observational studies * Analyse data from experimental designs * Employ sampling schemes with appropriate analyses. Skills: Problem solving (T, F, A), computing (T, F, A), written communication (F, A). Content: Design of Experiments: principles of experimental design; planning of experiments; comparative experiments; and selected topics from common designs: completely randomised, randomised blocks, factorial experiments; fixed and random effects; associated analyses - analysis of variance. Observational studies v. experiments: problems of bias, confounding, difficulty of causal interpretation; planning observational studies; analysis: matching, adjusting for confounding variables; cohort studies; case-control studies. Sampling target and sampled populations, finite populations, simple random sampling and selected topics from stratification and cluster sampling, ratio and regression estimators, randomised response methods. |
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MA50259 is Compulsory on the following programmes:Department of Computer Science
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