Statistics Fundamentals Proctored Exam (edX)

This proctored examination assesses all concepts, methods and techniques introduced across the following four courses within the LSE MicroBachelors program in Statistics Fundamentals:

- Statistics 1: Introductory statistics, probability and estimation

- Statistics 1: Statistical methods

- Statistics 2: Probability and distribution theory

- Statistics 2: Statistical inference

It is two hours in duration and must be sat under online proctored conditions.

It is the final step towards completing the LSE MicroBachelors program in Statistics Fundamentals and you must pass with a mark of 60% or higher to gain your certificate.

This course is part of the Statistics Fundamentals MicroBachelors® Program.

Syllabus

The following topics are assessed within this exam:

- Mathematical revision and the nature of statistics

- Data visualisation and descriptive statistics

- Probability theory

- The normal distribution and ideas of sampling

- Point and interval estimation

- Hypothesis testing I

- Hypothesis testing II

- Contingency tables and the chi-squared test

- Sampling design and some ideas underlying causation

- Correlation and linear regression

- Probability theory I

- Probability theory II

- Random variables

- Common distributions of random variables

- Multivariate random variables

- Sampling distributions of statistics

- Point estimation I

- Point estimation II and interval estimation

- Hypothesis testing

- Analysis of variance (ANOVA)