{"id":24,"date":"2015-04-28T16:17:48","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T16:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/sta\/?page_id=24"},"modified":"2015-06-29T10:48:33","modified_gmt":"2015-06-29T10:48:33","slug":"postgraduate","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/sta\/postgraduate\/","title":{"rendered":"Postgraduate Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> M.Sc. and PG.Dip. in Applied Statistics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The program consists of three parts, namely, <strong>Part 1<\/strong>, <strong>Part II<\/strong> and <strong>Part III<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Part 1<\/strong> consists of 5 course units worth of 5 credits, which introduce elementary statistics and probability with minimal application of mathematics. Contents are restricted to standard applications of statistics without much theory.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Part II<\/strong> consists of 10 course units worth of 15 credits, which introduce essential statistical methods with basic theory without much mathematical proofs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Part III<\/strong> consists of 5 course units worth of 10 credits and a research project worth of 450 credits. In this part students will learn advanced statistical theory and techniques.<\/p>\n<p>Total program, including lectures and examinations, requires approximately 92 working Saturdays. Total duration of the M.Sc. program is approximately 2 years. The lengths of parts 1, 2, and 3 are approximately 4 months, 12 months, and 8 months, respectively.<\/p>\n<h4>Part I<\/h4>\n<p>STA 501 1.0 Elements of Probability and Descriptive Statistics<br \/>\nSTA 502 1.0 Elements of Sample Surveys<br \/>\nSTA 503 1.0 Elements of Statistical Inference<br \/>\nSTA 504 1.0 Elements of Statistical Modelling<br \/>\nSTA 505 1.0 Elementary Data analysis<br \/>\nSTA 501 1.0 Elements of Probability and Descriptive Statistics<br \/>\nSTA 502 1.0 Elements of Sample Surveys<br \/>\nSTA 503 1.0 Elements of Statistical Inference<br \/>\nSTA 504 1.0 Elements of Statistical Modelling<br \/>\nSTA 505 1.0 Elementary Data analysis<\/p>\n<h4>Part II<\/h4>\n<p>STA 506 2.0 Linear Regression Analysis<br \/>\nSTA 507 2.0 Design and Analysis of Experiments<br \/>\nSTA 508 2.0 Time Series Analysis<br \/>\nSTA 509 1.5 Generalized linear models<br \/>\nSTA 510 1.5 Sampling Methods<br \/>\nSTA 511 1.5 Categorical Data Analysis<br \/>\nSTA 512 1.5 Data analysis and Statistical Computing<br \/>\nSTA 513 1.0 Medical Statistics<br \/>\nSTA 514 1.0 Industrial Statistics<br \/>\nSTA 515 1.0 Actuarial Statistics<\/p>\n<h4>Part III<\/h4>\n<p>STA 516 2.5 Advanced Probability and distribution Theory<br \/>\nSTA 517 2.5 Advanced Statistical Inference<br \/>\nSTA 518 2.0 Multivariate Statistics<br \/>\nSTA 519 2.0 Data analysis and Statistical Computing<br \/>\nSTA 520 1.0 Research Methodology<br \/>\n30.0 Research Project<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M.Sc. and PG.Dip. in Applied Statistics The program consists of three parts, namely, Part 1, Part II and Part III. Part 1 consists of 5 course units worth of 5 credits, which introduce elementary statistics and probability with minimal application of mathematics. Contents are restricted to standard applications of statistics without much theory. Part II &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/sta\/postgraduate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Postgraduate Courses<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":"","footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/sta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/sta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/sta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/sta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/sta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/sta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128,"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/sta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24\/revisions\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/science.sjp.ac.lk\/sta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}