The module SE216a as a whole runs for Semester I, with a two-hour final exam during the January examination period. There will be two lectures per week. Each student also has a weekly tutorial, from week 4 onward.

This submodule of the course involves 6 lectures. Each student will have two tutorials devoted to it, incorporating quizzes, and two written assignments. There will be one question about it on the final exam, and it will be compulsory.

This submodule counts for 25% of the grade, of which 70% will be determined by the final exam, and the rest by the assignments and quizzes.

The lectures are at Tuesday 12-1 and Friday 12-1. Tutorial groups and locations will be arranged.

The submodule is about stuff that every computer scientist and software engineer needs to know. We all have to deal with data, analyse them, and try to draw conclusions about them. The topics are:

Description and display of data: Variables, cases, types of variables. stem and leaf diagrams, histograms.

Measure of central tendency and spread: Mean, median, quartiles, inter-quartile range, box-plots, standard deviation.

The Normal Distribution.

Relationships between variables: Bivariate data, scatterplots, correlation, regression lines. Relations between categorical variables.

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