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2024 unit information
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Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.
1 x 3 hour seminar per week, weekly meetings.
Online independent and collaborative learning including 1 x 2 hour online seminar per week, weekly meetings.
Data is everywhere in the world. Without knowing how to interpret or use information from the data it would be difficult to understand its meaning. Statistics is both a method and a tool for interpreting information, testing hypotheses and analysing the inferences people make about the real-world. SIT191 aims to aid students develop knowledge in using statistics to summarise, describe and interpret numerical and graphical data and perform statistical inferences. In this unit, students will develop knowledge of the fundamentals of probability for reasoning real-world situations. Students will be required to use statistical software and calculators to analyse data and interpret results for tests on population means and proportions, chi-square tests, correlation and linear regression, and one-way ANOVA.
Apply statistical and probabilistic techniques and software to extract, analyse and summarise information from real-world data.
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilitiesGLO3: Digital literacy
GLO4: Critical thinkingGLO5: Problem solving
ULO3
Use appropriate methods, supported by statistical evidence, to communicate findings to a range of audiences.
GLO2: Communication
Portfolio demonstrating student learning and reflections
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
To be eligible to obtain a pass in this unit, students must meet certain milestones as part of the portfolio.
Prescribed text(s): David Diez, Mine Cetinkaya-Rundel and Christopher D Barr, 2019, OpenIntro Statistics, 4th Ed, (freely available online)
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: SIT191 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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