MAT 271E - MAT271E Probability and Statistics

Course Objectives

1. To teach epistemological issues in the conduct of research.
2. To provide competence on practical research skills, including research design, data collection, writing up of research and research analysis.
3. To teach making use of statistics in scientific researches.

Course Description

Scientific research methods. Writing up of scientific manuscripts. Fundamentals of statistics. Measures of central tendency. Measures of dispersion. The concept of probability and theorems. Bayes theorem. Random variables and probability distributions. Discrete and continuous distributions. Hypothesis testing. Practices by using multi-task statistical software.