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Data Science

Overview

  • Credit value: 30 credits at Level 6
  • Convenor: Maura Paterson
  • Assessment: coursework (20%) and a written examination (80%)

Module description

This module will allow you to develop a practical understanding of statistical modelling techniques for data analysis. You will gain experience of using statistical languages/packages to carry out contemporary techniques for data analysis and forecasting that have wide-ranging applications.

Indicative module syllabus

  • Importance of common distributions in modelling
  • Stochastic processes in discrete and continuous time
  • Monte Carlo simulation
  • Fitting continuous models to data
  • Multivariate and mixture distributions
  • Supervised and unsupervised learning
  • Predictive modelling
  • Neural networks

Learning objectives

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

  • understand and apply statistical techniques
  • apply tools of data analysis to a given set of data
  • make use of suitable statistical languages/packages to analyse data
  • transfer knowledge and expertise from one context to another, by applying statistical techniques in unfamiliar situations.