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Biostatistics

Code 10134
Year 2
Semester S1
ECTS Credits 6
Workload TP(60H)
Scientific area Mathematics
Entry requirements Integral and Differential Calculus.
Mode of delivery Face-to-face.
Work placements Not applicable.
Learning outcomes To apply strategies of Statistical Inference.
At the end of this UC students should be able to:
a) identify issues of science and biological and medical technologies that can be solved with probability strategies and statistical inference;
b) build probabilistic models appropriate to the problems;
c) select and apply strategies of Statistical Inference in solving problems.
Syllabus 1. Introduction to Probability Theory: Independence and conditioning; Distributions Binomial, Hypergeometric, Geometric, Poisson, Normal; moments and the Central Limit Theorem.
2. Introduction to Statistical Inference: estimation by the method of moments; properties of estimators; confidence intervals; tests of hypotheses.
Main Bibliography Introdução Computacional à Probabilidade e Estatística, Pedrosa, A. e Gama, S. (2007) Porto Editora
Language Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
Last updated on: 2012-05-17

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