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

ST104B Statistics 2 (half course)

Note

There has been a minor revision to this syllabus.

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.

Statistical tables will be provided.

Rules

04b Statistics 2 must be taken after, or at the same time as, 04a Statistics 1

Syllabus

This half course develops the ideas of measurement and hypothesis testing which have already been introduced. Some competence in Mathematics is assumed.

Basic background

To have reached the level of Statistics 1

Topics are:

Probability

Independence for several events, random variables, manipulation of E, V and Cov.

Distribution Theory

Moments of distributions. Important distributions including binomial, uniform, exponential and Poisson, Student's t, F. Joint probability distributions.

Inference

Bias, Mean square error. Efficiency. Hypothesis testing and confidence intervals for parameters such as mean, proportion, difference between means and proportions, a, b and r².

Goodness of fit tests

Chi-squared test of goodness-of-fit for simple contingency table models.

Anova

One-way and two-way analysis of variance tables. The use of the F test.

Regression

Least squares. Interval estimation. Diagnostics. Several explanatory variables.