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Semester 2

Statistical Computing (MATH10093)

Subject

Mathematics

College

SCE

Credits

10

Normal Year Taken

3

Delivery Session Year

2023/2024

Pre-requisites

Visiting students are advised to check that they have studied the material covered in the syllabus of any pre-requisite course listed above before enrolling. Visiting students are advised to check that they have studied the material covered in the syllabus of each prerequisite course before enrolling.

Course Summary

This course provides an introduction to programming within the statistical package R. Various computer intensive statistical algorithms will be discussed and their implementation in R will be investigated.

Course Description

Topics to be covered include :- basic commands of R (including plotting graphics);- data structures and data manipulation;- writing functions and scripts;- optimising functions in R; and- programming statistical techniques and interpreting the results (including bootstrap algorithms).

Assessment Information

Written Exam 0%, Coursework 100%, Practical Exam 0%

Additional Assessment Information

Coursework 100%

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