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Faculty of Science Handbook, Academic Session 2024/2025

estimation techniques, Confounding. Fractional
including ratio and regression factorial designs.
estimations, will be introduced
in the context of simple random Assessment:
sampling and stratified random Continuous Assessment: 40%
sampling. Areas of application Final Examination: 60%
may include social science and
official statistics.
SIT3013
Assessment: ANALYSIS OF FAILURE AND
Continuous Assessment: 40% SURVIVAL DATA
Final Examination: 60%
Survival distributions, hazard
models. Reliability of systems,
SIT3009 stochastic models. Censoring
STATISTICAL PROCESS and life-tables. The product-
CONTROL limit estimator. Parametric
survival models under
Methods and philosophy of censoring. Cox proportional
statistical process control. hazards model and other
Control charts for variables and models with covariates.
attributes. Time-weighted
control charts. Process Assessment:
capability analysis. Multivariate Continuous Assessment: 40%
control charts. Acceptance Final Examination: 60%
sampling plans.

Assessment: SIT3015
Continuous Assessment: 40% INTRODUCTION TO
Final Examination: 60% MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS

Matrix algebra and random
SIT3012 vectors. Multivariate normal
DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF distribution. Wishart
EXPERIMENTS distribution and Hotelling
distribution. Multivariate linear
Philosophy related to statistical regression, canonical
designed experiments. correlation analysis.
Completely randomized one- Dimensional reduction
factor design. Randomized methods: principal component
block designs. Latin squares. analysis, and linear
Incomplete block designs. discriminant analysis.
Factorial designs. Clustering methods for

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