| CODE | CHE1210 | ||||||
| TITLE | Data Treatment and Probability for Chemists | ||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||
| MQF LEVEL | Not Applicable | ||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 2 | ||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Chemistry | ||||||
| DESCRIPTION | Contents: Basic Ideas on Treatment of Data - Types of Data - Data collection - Coding and Sorting of Data - Presentation of Data Descriptive Statistics - Frequency Tables and Percentiles - Measures of Central Tendency - Measures of Dispersion Elementary Probability - Permutations and Combinations - Venn Diagrams and Simple Applications - Addition and Multiplication Rules - Conditional Probability - Mutually Exclusive and Independent Events Probability Distributions - Discrete Distributions: Uniform, Poisson, Binomial - Continuous Distributions: Exponential, Normal - Means, Variances and Standard Deviations Suitable arrangements will be made for time and space to be allocated to the instruction and use in practice of elementary modules in statistical software, time and human resources permitting. The package/s, which will be used, would preferably form part of some widely used software like readily available spreadsheet applications. Suggested Texts: - Freund, J. E. and Simon, G. A. (1995) Statistics - A First Course, Prentice Hall Inc. - Speigel, M. R. (1979) Schaum's Outline Series: Theory & Problems of Statistics - McGraw-Hill - Sander, D. (1995) Statistics - A First Course - McGraw-Hill - Freund, J. E. and Simon, G. A. (1997) Modern Elementary Statistics, Prentice Hall Inc. - Rees, D.G. (1989) Essential Statistics - 2nd Edition, Chapman and Hall - Freund, J. E. (1981) Statistics - A First Course - 3rd Edition, Prentice Hall Inc. - Johnson, R. (1981) Elementary Statistics - 4th Edition, Duxbury Press Boston - Harper, W.M. (1991) Statistics - 5th Edition, M and E Handbook Series - Gilbert, N. (1988) Statistics - 2nd Edition, Saunders College Publisher - J.A. Ingram (1977) Elementary Statistics, Cummings Publishing Co. - Alastair, C. and Wardlaw (1999) Practical Statistics for experimental Biologists - 2nd Edition, Wiley - Campbell, R.C. (1989) Statistics for Biologists - 3rd Edition, Cambridge University Press - Newbold, P. (1995) Statistics for Business and Economics - 4th Edition, Prentice Hall Inc. - Barrow, M. (2001) Statistics for Economics, Accounting and Business Studies, Financial Times Prentice Hall Inc. - Knapp, R. G. (1984) Basic Statistics for Nurses - 2nd Edition, Delmar - Finkelstein, M. and Levin, B. (2001) Statistics for Lawyers - 2nd Edition, Springer |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||
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| LECTURER/S | David Stephen Borg Liberato Camilleri |
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