Content and teaching | Assessment | Availability

Module content and teaching

Principal aims

Multivariate data arises whenever several interdependent variables are measured simultaneously. This occurs frequently in many areas: in medicine, in the social and environmental sciences and in economics. The analysis of such multidimensional data often presents an exciting challenge that requires new statistical techniques which are usually implemented using computer packages. This module aims to give you a good understanding of the geometric and algebraic ideas that these techniques are based on, before giving you any chance to try them out on some real data sets.

Principal learning outcomes

By the end of the course students will be able to: Carry out a principal components analysis and use it to summarise high dimensional data; Use linear discriminant analysis to solve simple classification problems; Understand the theory of the multivariate normal distribution; Perform multivariate hypothesis tests and construct confidence regions.

Timetabled teaching activities

3 x 1-hour lectures per week.

Departmental link

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/statistics/courses/modules/years3-4/st412

Other essential notes

Availability: Only available to students who have NOT taken ST323. Prerequisite(s): ST218 Mathematical Statistics A and ST219 Mathematical Statistics B for students from the Statistics department. ST220 Mathematical Statistics for students from other departments.

Module assessment

Assessment group	Assessment name	Percentage
15 CATS (Module code: ST412-15)
D (Assessed/examined work)	Coursework	20%
	2 hour examination (Summer)	80%
D1 (Assessed/examined work)	Assignment 1	10%
	Assignment 2	10%
	2 hour examination (Summer)	80%

Module availability

This module is available on the following courses:

Core

N/A

Optional Core

• Undergraduate Master of Mathematics,Operational Research,Statistics and Economics (G30B) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Master of Mathematics,Operational Research,Statistics and Economics (G30C) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Master of Mathematics,Operational Research,Statistics and Economics (G30D) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Master of Mathematics,Operational Research,Statistics and Economics (with Intercalated (G30F) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Master of Mathematics,Operational Research,Statistics and Economics (with Intercalated (G30F) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Master of Mathematics,Operational Research,Statistics and Economics (with Intercalated (G30G) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Master of Mathematics,Operational Research,Statistics and Economics (with Intercalated (G30G) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Master of Mathematics,Operational Research,Statistics and Economics (with Intercalated (G30H) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Master of Mathematics,Operational Research,Statistics and Economics (with Intercalated (G30H) - Year 4

Optional

• Undergraduate Mathematics and Statistics (BSc MMathStat) (G1G3) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Mathematics and Statistics (BSc MMathStat) (G1G3) - Year 4
• Master of Advanced Study in Mathematical Sciences (G1PE) - Year 1
• Undergraduate Master of Mathematics,Operational Research,Statistics and Economics (G300) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Master of Mathematics,Operational Research,Statistics and Economics (G300) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Master of Mathematics,Operational Research,Statistics and Economics (G30A) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Master of Mathematics,Operational Research,Statistics and Economics (G30A) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Master of Mathematics,Operational Research,Statistics and Economics (G30A) - Year 5
• Undergraduate Master of Mathematics,Operational Research,Statistics and Economics (G30B) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Master of Mathematics,Operational Research,Statistics and Economics (G30B) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Master of Mathematics,Operational Research,Statistics and Economics (G30B) - Year 5
• Undergraduate Master of Mathematics,Operational Research,Statistics and Economics (G30C) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Master of Mathematics,Operational Research,Statistics and Economics (G30C) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Master of Mathematics,Operational Research,Statistics and Economics (G30C) - Year 5
• Undergraduate Master of Mathematics,Operational Research,Statistics and Economics (G30D) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Master of Mathematics,Operational Research,Statistics and Economics (G30D) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Master of Mathematics,Operational Research,Statistics and Economics (G30D) - Year 5
• Undergraduate Master of Mathematics,Operational Research,Statistics and Economics (with Intercalated (G30E) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Master of Mathematics,Operational Research,Statistics and Economics (with Intercalated (G30E) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Master of Mathematics,Operational Research,Statistics and Economics (with Intercalated (G30E) - Year 5
• Undergraduate Master of Mathematics,Operational Research,Statistics and Economics (with Intercalated (G30F) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Master of Mathematics,Operational Research,Statistics and Economics (with Intercalated (G30F) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Master of Mathematics,Operational Research,Statistics and Economics (with Intercalated (G30F) - Year 5
• Undergraduate Master of Mathematics,Operational Research,Statistics and Economics (with Intercalated (G30G) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Master of Mathematics,Operational Research,Statistics and Economics (with Intercalated (G30G) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Master of Mathematics,Operational Research,Statistics and Economics (with Intercalated (G30G) - Year 5
• Undergraduate Master of Mathematics,Operational Research,Statistics and Economics (with Intercalated (G30H) - Year 3
• Undergraduate Master of Mathematics,Operational Research,Statistics and Economics (with Intercalated (G30H) - Year 4
• Undergraduate Master of Mathematics,Operational Research,Statistics and Economics (with Intercalated (G30H) - Year 5
• Undergraduate Discrete Mathematics (G4G3) - Year 4
• Postgraduate Taught Statistics (G4P1) - Year 1
• Postgraduate Taught Statistics (G4P1) - Year 2