STATS 785 Topics in Statistical Data Management

Below description edited in year: 2010

Points: 15

Taught: Second Semester City

Website: STATS 785 website

This course includes the material in STATS 301.
It is intended for postgraduate students who have not already passed STATS 301.

One of the key purposes of STATS 785 is to introduce you to the SAS software for the purposes of statistical inference, programming and modeling. SAS is a major commercial statistics package that is used at about 40,000 sites worldwide, and by 4 million users. We will use SAS as a programming language, and some more advanced features of SAS programming.

STATS 785 is designed to be a practical course in the use of SAS in industry, such as, Market Research, Finance and Medicine.

To date all the data you have seen has usually been given to you in a form ready for exploration and modeling. This is rarely the case in most day to day projects in industry. Here, the emphasis will be on getting data from a 'raw and messy' form into as state ready for the data analysis techniques that you have learnt, or will learn, at graduate level.

In particular, we require graduate students to go through all phases of the statistical process, form data acquisition, statistical modeling and effective communication with clients.

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Although every reasonable effort is made to ensure accuracy, this information for the course year (2010), is provided as a general guide only for students and is subject to alteration. All students enrolling at the University of Auckland must consult its official document, the University of Auckland Calendar, to ensure that they are aware of and comply with all regulations, requirements and policies.