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This module is aimed at students who are NOT studying a degree with a significant statistics content but would like to get some exposure to the basic concepts of data collection and analysis. We welcome students studying Medicine, Nursing, Science (excluding Mathematics and Statistics), Veterinary, Agricultural Science, Business, Social Science, Law, Arts, etc. Students studying for degrees in Statistics, Economics and Finance or Acturarial and Financial Studies should not take this module. Any such students who attempt to register for this module will have difficulty registering for the core modules in these degree programmes. Pre-requisites: Leaving Certificate Mathematics. Topics covered:1. Statistics: The Science of variability. 2. Data Sources: Sampling and Opinion Polls, Experiments and Observational Studies 3. Descriptive Statistics: Summarising data, Relationships between variables.4. Inferential Statistics: The Normal Distribution, Simple Linear Regression with applications, How to interpret Hypothesis Tests and Confidence Intervals. PLEASE NOTE: THIS MODULE CONTAINS A SIGNIFICANT CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT COMPONENT, STUDENTS TAKING THIS MODULE WILL BE ASSESSED FREQUENTLY AND REGULARLY THROUGH THE TRIMESTER.