795-105 Statistics

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Subject Description

The objective of this subject is to develop a student's capacity to:

• apply logarithms and exponentials to physical problems;

• analyse physical problems using rate of change, behaviour and limits of functions;

• use approximation, derivatives and integrals to solve calculations of distance, area, volume, work, pressure, and time within physical systems;

• apply statistical techniques to sampling, quality control, experimental data and other data relevant to the management of a food production subject;

• understand the principles of measures of central tendency and distribution;

• calculate and explain probability and understand the probability distributions;

• relate sampling distributions to statistical considerations;

• explain applications of estimation statistics;

• apply concepts of correlation and regression;

• explain the principles of hypothesis testing.

The content includes: Collection, organisation and analysis and report of data; measures of dispersion; probability distributions for discrete and continuous variables; sampling distributions, estimation, analysis of variance, correlation and regression, hypothesis testing and the meaning of significance, integration, application of the definite integral and transcendental functions, rate of change and the limits of a function and applications of algebraic functions.

Assessment

Two examinations of two hours each (30% each); four exercises (10% each).