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Faculty of Science Handbook, Session 2017/2018

Assessment: SIT3014 INTRODUCTION TO BAYESIAN
Continuous Assessment: 40% STATISTICS
Final Examination: 60%
Bayes' Theorem. Bayesian framework and terminology.
Medium of Instruction: Bayesian inference. Prior formulation. Implementation via
English posterior sampling. Bayesian decision theory. Application to
real-world problems.
Humanity Skill:
CS3, CT4, LL2 Assessment:
Continuous Assessment: 40%
References: Final Examination : 60%
1. Montgomery, D.C.: Design and Analysis of
Experiments. 6th edition, John Wiley, 2004. Medium of Instruction:
2. Box, G.E.P., Hunter, W.G. and Hunter,J.S.: Statistics English
for Experimenters. 2nd edition, John Wiley, 2005.
3. Tabachnick, B.G., Fidell, L.S.: Experimental designs Humanity Skill:
using anova, Duxbury, 2007. CS3, CT3, TS2, LL2
4. Myers, R.H.: Classical and Modern Regression References:
Analysis with Applications. 2nd edition, Duxbury, 1990 1. Lee, P. M. (1991). Bayesian statistics: an
introduction, Oxford University Press.
2. Hoff, P. D. (2009). A first course in Bayesian
SIT3013 ANALYSIS OF FAILURE AND SURVIVAL statistical methods, Springer.
DATA 3. Koch, K. (2007). Introduction to Bayesian statistics,
Second Edition, Springer.
Survival distributions, hazard models. Reliability of 4. Cowles, M. K. (2013). Applied Bayesian statistics:
systems, stochastic models. Censoring and life-tables. The with R and OpenBUGS examples, Springer.
product-limit estimator. Parametric survival models under
censoring. Cox proportional hazards model and other basic
models with covariates.
Assessment:
Continuous Assessment: 40%
Final Examination: 60%
Medium of Instruction:
English

Humanity Skill:
CS1, CT2, LL1
References:
1. Sherwin D.J. and Bossche A. (2012), The Reliability,
Availability and Productiveness of Systems, Springer
Netherlands.
2. Peter J. Smith (2002). Analysis of Failure and Survival
Data. Chapman & Hall.
3. Tableman M. & Kim J.S. (2004). Survival Analysis
using S - Analysis of Time-to-Event Data. Chapman &
Hall.
4. Smith D.J. (2011) Reliability Maintainability and Risk,
th
Practical Methods for Engineers, 8 Ed., Elsevier Ltd.

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