Programme Summary and Regulations 2011-2012 - EMFSS Access Route (New Regulations)

Table of Contents

1. University of London International Programmes Programme Summary and Regulations Access route to the degrees and diplomas in Economics, Management, Finance and the Social Sciences
2. Important information regarding the Programme Summary and Regulations
3. Programme Summary
4. Detailed Regulations
5. Annex A Syllabuses
   1. DV1171 Introduction to international development
   2. GY1009 Human geography
   3. GY1147 Physical geography: fundamentals of the physical environment
   4. GY1148 Methods of geographical analysis (half course)
   5. IR1011 Introduction to international relations
   6. IR1034 World history since 1917
   7. IS1168 Introduction to computer systems architecture and programming
   8. PS1130 Introduction to modern political thought
   9. LA1031 Common law reasoning and institutions
   10. MT105A Mathematics 1 (half course)
   11. MT105B Mathematics 2 (half course)
   12. MT1174 Calculus
   13. PS1114 Democratic politics and the State
   14. SC1021 Principles of sociology
   15. SC1158 Reading social science (half course)
   16. ST104A Statistics 1 (half course)
   17. ST104B Statistics 2 (half course)
6. Annex B Assessment Criteria
7. Glossary of terms
8. Related documents and other sources of information
9. Corrections

ST104A Statistics 1 (half course)

Note

Students may bring into the examination hall their own hand held electronic calculator. If calculators are used they must satisfy the requirements listed in section 3 of the Detailed Regulations.

Graph paper and statistical tables will be provided.

Syllabus

This course introduces some of the basic ideas of theoretical statistics, emphasising the applications of these methods and the interpretation of tables and results.

Basic background

Elementary summation signs, elementary probability, Venn and tree diagrams.

Data collection

Elements of survey design, the stages of a survey, ideas of randomness, observation and experiment.

Data presentation and analysis

Descriptive statistics, measures of location and dispersion, pictorial and graphical representation.

The Normal Distribution

Estimation of mean, proportion, standard deviation, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing. Ideas of testing for differences between means and proportions. The use of Student's t.

Goodness of fit

The Chi-squared distribution and contingency tables.

Regression and correlation

An introduction to the ideas of regression and correlation, least squares, estimation of a, b, and r², scatter diagrams.