Study program
The following list of subjects is a guide for students wishing to
pursue statistics as a course of study at the University of
Southern Queensland.
Introductory courses
- STA2300 Data Analysis
- STA3300 Experimental Design
- STA3302 Statistics for Researchers
(not studied in the undergraduate program)
Second level courses
- STA2301 Distribution Theory
- STA2302 Statistical Inference
- Plus the statistics/mathematics course: MAT1200 Operations Research 1
- Plus the statistics/computing course: CSC3404 Data Management
Third level courses
- STA3301 Statistical Models
- STA3303 Statistics for Climate Research
- Plus the statistics/mathematics course: MAT3201 Advanced Operations Research
- Plus the computing course: CSC3417 Data Mining Discovers Knowledge
Options and electives
When statistics courses are studied with a suitable set of electives and option studies,
many different career options open up.
Some typical
options studies
may include:
- bioinformatics
(for employment in one of the bioinformatics professions);
- biology
(for employment as a biostatistician or biometrician);
- climatology
(for employment as a climatologist);
- computing or computer science
(statistical computing is a highly sought-after skill);
- economics
(for employment as an econometrician);
- finance
(for employment in financial statistics);
- psychology
(psychologist use a lot of statistics);
- physics
(statistical physics is a modern discipline in physics);
- a combination of units from the above to gain a breadth of
experience in disciplines that use statistics.
For example,
studying a climatology, finance, physics and bioinformatics course
would provide a breadth of experience in these four disciplines.
