• Offered by Rsch Sch of Finance, Actuarial Studies & App Stats
  • ANU College ANU College of Business and Economics
  • Classification Transitional
  • Course subject Statistics
  • Areas of interest Finance, Statistics
  • Academic career PGRD
  • Course convener
    • Gen Nowak
  • Mode of delivery In Person
  • Co-taught Course
  • Offered in First Semester 2016
    Second Semester 2016
    Spring Session 2016
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This course aims to facilitate an understanding of basic statistical techniques used for the analysis of financial and investment data.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

Upon successful completion of the requirements for this course, students will be able to:
• Explain and use basic financial statistical techniques and concepts;
• Use a variety of statistical approaches to analyse financial and investment data;
• Solve problems using the principles of probability;
• Recognise and use different statistical distributions;
• Perform calculations and interpret results of a variety of estimation techniques;
• Conduct and explain the results of a hypothesis test;
• Carry out and interpret an analysis of variance test and compare the difference between two or more sets of data;
• Apply and interpret regression models.

Other Information

STAT7055 in Spring Session (intensive mode) is scheduled for the students of Master of Applied Data Analytics. CBE students should enrol the course offered either at Semester 1 or 2.

See the course outline on the College courses page. Outlines are uploaded as they become available. 

Indicative Assessment

  • 35% Mid Semester Exam
  • 65% Final Exam

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Requisite and Incompatibility

You are not able to enrol in this course if you have completed STAT1008 or STAT1003.

Specialisations

Fees

Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.  

If you are a domestic graduate coursework or international student you will be required to pay tuition fees. Tuition fees are indexed annually. Further information for domestic and international students about tuition and other fees can be found at Fees.

Student Contribution Band:
2
Unit value:
6 units

If you are an undergraduate student and have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). You can find your student contribution amount for each course at Fees.  Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.

Units EFTSL
6.00 0.12500
Domestic fee paying students
Year Fee
2016 $3480
International fee paying students
Year Fee
2016 $4638
Note: Please note that fee information is for current year only.

Offerings, Dates and Class Summary Links

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The list of offerings for future years is indicative only.
Class summaries, if available, can be accessed by clicking on the View link for the relevant class number.

First Semester

Class number Class start date Last day to enrol Census date Class end date Mode Of Delivery Class Summary
3062 15 Feb 2016 26 Feb 2016 31 Mar 2016 27 May 2016 In Person N/A

Second Semester

Class number Class start date Last day to enrol Census date Class end date Mode Of Delivery Class Summary
8021 18 Jul 2016 29 Jul 2016 31 Aug 2016 28 Oct 2016 In Person N/A

Spring Session

Class number Class start date Last day to enrol Census date Class end date Mode Of Delivery Class Summary
Intensive Course
9693 03 Oct 2016 14 Oct 2016 21 Oct 2016 02 Dec 2016 In Person N/A

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