Quantitative Techniques for Postgraduate Certificate

• Credit value: 15 credits at Level 7
• Convenor: Professor Sandeep Kapur
• Assessment: two 2-hour examinations in September (50% each)

This compulsory module is mainly for revision, as it is assumed that you have studied statistics before and are also familiar with matrix algebra.

It covers the following topics:

• Probability and distribution theories: probability, random variables and probability distributions, expectations and moments, univariate and multi-variate distributions, functions of random variables
• Statistical inference: sampling, large sample theory, point estimation, parametric interval estimation, tests of statistical hypotheses

The module will be taught intensively through a sequence of live online sessions, three evenings a week for four weeks in September.

By the end of this module, you should be able to:

• use matrices for algebraic manipulations
• understand the basics of probability distributions and statistical inference.