Dr Yunxiao Chen COL 5.16

This course is available on the BSc in Accounting and Finance. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.

Also available to students who have studied statistics and mathematics to the level of MA107/ST107 Quantitative Methods or ST108 Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences or equivalent.

This course cannot be taken with ST211 Applied Regression or DS202 Data Science for Social Scientists.

MA107/ST107 Quantitative Methods or ST108 Statistical Methods for the Social Sciences or equivalent.

A second course in statistics with an emphasis on data analysis with applications in the social sciences. Students will gain hands on experience using R-- a programming language and software environment for data analysis and visualisation. The course contains five topics, including (1) principles of statistical analysis, including data preparation, statistical models, regression and classification, inference, prediction, and bias-variance tradeoff, (2) multiple linear regression, including its assumptions, inference, data transformations, diagnostics, model selection, (3) regression tree method, (4) logistic regression, including odds ratios, likelihood, classification, and ROC curve, and (5) Bayes rule for classification and linear discriminant analysis.

This course will be delivered through a combination of classes, lectures and Q&A sessions, totalling a minimum of 36 hours across Lent Term and 4 hours of lectures in the Summer Term. This year, some of this teaching may be delivered through a combination of classes and flipped-lectures delivered as short online videos. This course includes a reading week in Week 6 of Lent Term. Students will be given their assessed project to start on in week 6 which is due in at the end of LT.

Moodle quizzes and a quantitative research project.

James, G., Witten, D., Hastie, T., & Tibshirani, R. (2013). An introduction to statistical learning. New York, NY: Springer. 

Fox, J. (2015). Applied regression analysis and generalized linear models. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

Exam (80%, duration: 2 hours) in the summer exam period.
Coursework (20%) in the LT.

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