Undergraduates Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Statistics/Stochastic Processes Specialisation

The Statistics/Stochastic Processes specialisation gives students a firm foundation in two areas:

  • Applied statistics develops, tests and deploys tools that measure, control and reduces the uncertainty in the environment, marketplace or biological entities.
  • Stochastic processes provides models for random processes in the environment such as financial markets, living organisms, populations, genetics, epidemics, queues and earthquakes.

In the first three semesters of your degree your program depends upon your studies and results at VCE level. In semesters 4 to 6 students do a common course.

 
≥38 in VCE Specialist Mathematics 3/4
27 to 39 in VCE Specialist Mathematics 3/4
≥25 in VCE Mathematical Methods 3/4 and no (or <27 in) Specialist Mathematics 3/4
Semester 1
Accelerated Mathematics 1(or Mathematics 1 in 2008)
Calculus 2
Calculus 1
Semester 2
Accelerated Mathematics 2(or Mathematics 2 in 2008)
Linear Algebra
Calculus 2
Linear Algebra**
Semester 3
Probability
Real Analysis with Applications
Real Analysis with Applications
Vector Calculus (or Multivariable & Vector Calculus in 2009) (Optional Subject)
Probability or
Probability for Statistics
Probability or
Probability for Statistics
Semester 4
Statistics
Semester 5 Linear Statistical Models
at least 1 of


Probability & Statistical Inference***(see note)

Semester 6 Stochastic Modelling Modern Applied Statistics***(see note)
Notes:
** It is recommended that Linear Algebra is completed either in Semester 2 of first year or in Summer Semester at the start of second year.
*** Students who choose only one of these options must do at least one other 300 level Mathematics and Statistics subject.

 

 

 

 

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