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Data Management and Interpretation

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Description

This course is an introduction to the quantitative methods used in agriculture and nature resource management. Statistical topics include the organisation, description and presentation of data; the design of experiments; the use of inference to draw conclusions from data; tests of significance for mean and proportions; confidence intervals; goodness of fit tests; regression and analysis of variance. Biomathematical topics include the construction and use of mathematical models, and an introduction to calculus.


Objective


Content

 
Year Semester Level Units
2012 2 1 3
David Green
Lecturer for this course

Delivery

2 one-hour lectures per week, one tutorial and one practical session per week


Assessment

15% Assignments, 5% Mid-semester Test, 80% Final Examination.


Graduate attributes


Linkage past

No past linkages have been noted.


Linkage present

No present linkages have been noted.


Linkage future

This course is not recorded as prequisite for other courses.


Restrictions

None.


Recommended text

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