Special Topics in Statistics (MAE837)

Undergraduate Courses Outlines - Department of Mathematics

General

School	School of Science
Academic Unit	Department of Mathematics
Level of Studies	Undergraduate
Course Code	ΜΑΕ837
Semester	8
Course Title	Special Topics in Statistics
Independent Teaching Activities	Lectures (Weekly Teaching Hours: 3, Credits: 6)
Course Type	Special Background
Prerequisite Courses	-
Language of Instruction and Examinations	Greek
Is the Course Offered to Erasmus Students	Yes (in English, reading Course)
Course Website (URL)	-

Learning Outcomes

Learning outcomes	Students will become familiar with the themes in question and develop knowledge of statistical methods, and will also learn how the methodology becomes relevant in certain application areas. Students will learn a specialized field of statistics not covered by any ordinary course.
General Competences	Working independently Decision-making Production of free, creative and inductive thinking Criticism and self-criticism.

Syllabus

The precise contents of this course may vary from occasion to occasion, but will consist of selected themes of contemporary research interest in statistics methodology, depending on both demands from students and the availability of appropriate course leaders. Examples include parametric lifetime modeling, experimental design, extreme value statistics, advanced stochastic simulation, graphical modeling, statistics quality control etc. The course will be of interest to students who want to develop their basic knowledge of statistics methodology. See the specific semester page for a more detailed description of the course.
For the next academic year the syllabus of the course is the following: Multivariate distributions: basic properties. Multivariate normal distribution: properties and estimation. Brief review of multivariate methods of statistical analysis: Principal Components, Factor Analysis, MANOVA, Discriminant Analysis.

Teaching and Learning Methods - Evaluation

Delivery	Classroom (face-to-face)
Use of Information and Communications Technology	-
Teaching Methods	Activity Semester Workload Lectures 39 Working independently 78 Exercises-Homeworks 33 Course total 150
Student Performance Evaluation	Final written exam in Greek (in case of Erasmus students in English) which concentrates on the solution of problems which are motivated by the main themes of the course.

Attached Bibliography

Since the precise contents of this course may vary from occasion to occasion, depending on both demands from students and the availability of instructors, for the bibliography see the specific semester page. For the next academic year 2018-2019 the bibliography is:

• Καρλής Δημήτρης (2005). Πολυμεταβλητή στατιστική ανάλυση. Εκδόσεις Σταμούλη.
• DAVID J. BARTHOLOMEW, FIONA STEELE, IRINI MOUSTAKI, JANE I. GALBRAITH (2011). Ανάλυση πολυμεταβλητών τεχνικών στις κοινωνικές επιστήμες. Εκδόσεις Κλειδάριθμος ΕΠΕ.