• Course unit
title
Statistics in the 21st century
• Course Unit Code
6646
• Type of
course unit
Short
duration course
• Learning
outcomes of the course unit
Students who
will complete this course will acquire knowledge of the latest developments in
statistical theory and applications and they will be able to use these
developments in tackling statistical problems in a better way than with the
methods that they have learned by taking the traditional statistical courses.
• Mode of delivery
Face to face
• Prerequisites and co-requisites
Attendance and
knowledge of all of the compulsory courses of the Department of Statistics
curriculum.
• Course
contents
Environmental Statistics.
Capture-Recapture Models. Statistics in Animal Breeding. Some Issues in
Assessing Human Fertility. Statistical Issues in Toxicology. Receiver Operating
Characteristic Methodology. Environmental Epidemiology. Challenges Facing Statistical
Genetics. Computational Molecular Biology. Finance: Α Selective Survey. Statistics and
Marketing. Causal Inference in the Social Sciences.
Political Methodology: Α Welcoming Discipline. Statistics in Sociology,
1950-2000. Psychometrics. Empirical Methods and the Law. Statistics in the
Physical Sciences and Engineering. Challenges in Understanding the Atmosphere.
Seismology-A Statistical Vignette. Internet Traffic Data. Coding and
Compression: Α Happy Union of Theory and Practice.The State of
Statistical Process Control as We Proceed into the
• Recommended or required
reading
o
Statistics in the 21st Century
•Planned
learning activities and teaching methods
Project presentations
•Assessment
methods and criteria
Assessment of projects assigned during the
course
•Language
of instruction
English language