Course level

Postgraduate Coursework

Faculty

Science

School

Mathematics & Physics School

Units

2

Duration

One Semester

Delivery mode

Internal

Class hours

2 Lecture hours
1 Tutorial hour
1 Practical or Laboratory hour

Incompatible

MATH2000, MATH7000, MATH2001

Prerequisite

MATH7501 or (MATH1051 & MATH1052)

Assessment methods

Assignments and Examinations

Course enquiries

Dr Yoni Nazarathy

Current course offerings

Course offerings Location Mode Course Profile
Semester 2, 2024 (22/07/2024 - 18/11/2024) St Lucia In Person Profile unavailable

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Course description

This course will provide students with the mathematical foundations important for advanced statistics methods, data modelling and analysing large data sets. Ordinary differential equations, multi-dimensional integration and change of variables. Orthogonal matrices, eigenvalues, eigenvectors, diagonalization, method of least squares, singular value decomposition. Multivariate Gaussian & related techniques including principal component analysis. Taylor series, maxima, minima and saddle points in N-dimensions. Lagrange multipliers for constrained optimization. Examples from statistical methods will be used to illustrate application of the methods. Computational software will be used throughout this course.

Archived offerings

Course offerings Location Mode Course Profile
Semester 2, 2023 (24/07/2023 - 18/11/2023) External External Course Profile
Semester 2, 2023 (24/07/2023 - 18/11/2023) St Lucia In Person Course Profile
Semester 2, 2022 (25/07/2022 - 19/11/2022) External External Course Profile
Semester 2, 2022 (25/07/2022 - 19/11/2022) St Lucia Internal Course Profile
Semester 2, 2021 (26/07/2021 - 20/11/2021) External External Course Profile
Semester 2, 2021 (26/07/2021 - 20/11/2021) St Lucia Internal Course Profile
Semester 2, 2020 (03/08/2020 - 21/11/2020) External External Course Profile
Semester 2, 2020 (03/08/2020 - 21/11/2020) St Lucia Flexible Delivery Course Profile
Semester 2, 2019 (22/07/2019 - 16/11/2019) St Lucia Internal Course Profile
Semester 2, 2018 (23/07/2018 - 17/11/2018) St Lucia Internal Course Profile
Semester 2, 2017 (24/07/2017 - 18/11/2017) St Lucia Internal Profile unavailable