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Course Catalog 1999/2000


Business Adm and Social Science

IEK020 Mathematical Statistics 6.0 ECTS credits

TIMEPERIOD:


LANGUAGE:Swedish

EXAMINER
Kerstin Vännman Bitr prof


PREREQUISITES
Engineering Mathematics corresponding to part 1-3 of Mathematics MAM039-MAM047 or part I-VII of Mathematics MAM085 or MAM050.

COURSE AIM
¥ To give the student knowledge about the basic concepts within probability and statistical inference;
¥ to give an ability to apply some fundamental statistical methods for analysis of data.

CONTENTS
The course deals with basic concepts in probability and statistics like EDA, the concept of probability, random variables, measure of location and spread, distributions, the central limit theorem, estimation, confidence intervals for parameters in wellknown distributions and for comparisons of means, and hypothesis testing. Furthermore is regression analysis (both simple regression and multiple regression) dealt with.

TEACHING


EXAMINATION

COURSE GRADE SCALE:

ITEMS/CREDITS
Written exam 4.50ECTS
Laboratory work 1.50ECTS

COURSE LITERATURE
Hamilton, L.: Regression with Graphics, A Second Course in Applied Statistics, Brooks-/Cole Publishing Company, Pacific Grove, California, 1992.
Vännman, K.: Matematisk statistik. Grundkurs för tekniska högskolor, Studentlitteratur, Lund, 1990. (In Swedish.)
Complementary material from the Division of Quality Technology and Statistics. (In Swedish.)


REMARKS


Further information: International Office

Valid for the academic year 1999/2000.

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