Postgraduate Course: Incomplete Data Analysis (MATH11185)
Course Outline
| School | School of Mathematics | 
College | College of Science and Engineering | 
 
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) | 
Availability | Not available to visiting students | 
 
| SCQF Credits | 10 | 
ECTS Credits | 5 | 
 
 
| Summary | This course is for MSc students who already have some undergraduate level background in statistics. 
The course focuses on different techniques for dealing with missing data within a formal frequentist statistical framework. | 
 
| Course description | 
    
    Topics to be covered may include : 
- types of missingness; 
- single and multiple imputation; 
- mixture models; 
- hidden Markov models; and 
- the EM algorithm.
    
    
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Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2019/20, Not available to visiting students (SS1) 
  
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Quota:  None | 
 
| Course Start | 
Semester 1 | 
 
Timetable  | 
	
Timetable | 
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) | 
 
 Total Hours:
100
(
 Lecture Hours 22,
 Seminar/Tutorial Hours 5,
 Summative Assessment Hours 2,
 Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
69 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) | 
 
  Written Exam
95 %,
Coursework
5 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) | 
Coursework 5%; Examination 95% | 
 
| Feedback | 
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| Exam Information | 
 
    | Exam Diet | 
    Paper Name | 
    Hours & Minutes | 
    
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| Main Exam Diet S1 (December) |  Incomplete Data Analysis (MATH11185) | 2:00 |  |  
 
Learning Outcomes 
    On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
    
        - Understand different types of missingness.
 - Understand different statistical techniques for dealing with missing data and associated advantages and disadvantages.
 - Fit models to data with missing observations.
 - Interpret the output from statistical analyses.
 
     
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Reading List 
| Statistical Analysis with Missing Data.  Little and Rubin. Wiley. |   
 
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills | 
Not entered | 
 
| Special Arrangements | 
These Postgraduate Taught courses may be taken by Undergraduate students *without* requiring a concession (NB. students on Postgraduate taught programmes are given priority in the allocation of places). For all other Postgraduate Taught courses the student and/or Personal Tutor must seek a concession. | 
 
| Keywords | IDAn,Data Analysis,Statistics | 
 
 
Contacts 
| Course organiser | Dr Vanda Fernandes Inacio De Carvalho 
Tel: (0131 6)50 4877 
Email: Vanda.Inacio@ed.ac.uk | 
Course secretary | Miss Gemma Aitchison 
Tel: (0131 6)50 9268 
Email: Gemma.Aitchison@ed.ac.uk | 
   
 
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