ECTS
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Course details
Course code: BHS10172o15Semester: 2015/2016 summer
Name: Basics of Statistics
Major: Animal Science
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 2
ECTS points: 5
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 30 / 0
Lecturer: dr hab. Heliodor Wierzbicki, prof. nadzw.
Language of instruction: Polish / English
The course taught in English if the group has ≥6 students. The course taught in Polish with a possibility of support in English if the group has <6 students
Learning outcomes: Knowledge: students have general knowledge on mathematics and statistics. Skills: students are able to use information technology (computer software) to collect and process data on animal husbandry; students can solve, under supervision of a teacher, simple research problems concerning agriculture, and then are able to interpret results and conclude.
Competences: Personal and social competences (attitudes and behaviours): students are aware of need of permanent upgrading of their knowledge.
Prerequisites: mathematics, computer science
Course content: The overall purpose of the course is to provide students with theoretical background and practical skills concerning statistical methods used whensummarizing or describing a collection of data (descriptive statistics), data modelling, and then to draw inferences about the process under investigation (inferential statistics).
Recommended literature: 1. Krysicki W., Bartos J., Dyczka W., Królikowska K., Wasilewski M. Rachunek prawdopodobieństwa i statystyka matematyczna w zadaniach. Statystyka matematyczna 2. Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA. Warszawa 1998, 2003. 2. J.Tukey, Explanatory Data Analysis. Reading, MA:Addison-Wesley, 1977. 3. Eric Weissteins’s World of Mathematics, http://mathworld.wolfram.com/
Assessment methods: During the course of semester 3 written tests will be held. The final grade will be calculated as arithemtic mean of the tests. Written exam - duration 90 min. 60% correct answers to pass.
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