| Unit name | Data Analysis |
|---|---|
| Unit code | EMAT20205 |
| Credit points | 10 |
| Level of study | I/5 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
| Unit director | Dr. Katie O'Brien |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites | |
| Co-requisites |
None |
| School/department | Department of Engineering Mathematics |
| Faculty | Faculty of Engineering |
Introduction to programming in MATLAB; Floating point arithmetic; Rounding and experimental error; Finite/infinite algorithms; Truncation error; Taylor series; Review of root finding techniques; Experimental time series; Polynomial interpolation; Linear and cubic splines; Numerical differentiation; Numerical integration; Numerical solution of ODEs; Concept of order/rate of convergence; Pseudo-random number generation; Simple Poisson processes; Basic methods of applied statistics, including limit theorems and normalisation of data; Hypothesis testing, including t-test and chi-square test; Confidence intervals; Correlation and covariance; Multi-variate linear regression; C-means clustering.
