• TFMT2001
  • Statistics

  • Credits (ECTS): 5
  • Food Science and Environmental Health

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Overview

Module Description

To give students the ability to collect, evaluate and draw conclusions from information collected, using statistical techniques

Indicative Syllabus

Analysis of Variation, Experimental Design and Optimisation: Randomisation, blocking, balance design, Latin Squares, One-way Anova, Two-way Anova, one at a time design, steepest ascent
Chi Squared Distribution and Goodness-of-fit: Contingency tables and chi-squared analysis. Non Parametric Statistics: Sign tests and Wilcoxon test signed rank test.
Linear Regression and Correlation: simple and mutliple linear regression with application to drug potency and shelf-life estimation.
Probability and Probability Distributions: probability of simple, two and multiple events, conditional probability, permutations, combinations, binomial, possion and normal distribution.
Review of Measures of Central Tendency and Variation: sampling, frequency distributions, graphical representation, modes, median, arithmetic mean, variance, standard deviation.
Test of Hypotheses: z-tests, t-tests, f-tests, test for proportions, one-sample and two-sample tests,confidence intervals, type I and type II errors.

Total Contact Teaching Hours:48

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