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School Of Computing And Mathematics

Planning Research MethodsWestern Sydney University Unit Code: DN206A.1

Discipline: URBAN DESIGN AND REGIONAL PLANNING

Student Contribution Band: 2

Level: 2

Credit Points: 10

About this Unit
This unit introduces a number of statistical techniques widely used in the environmental and social sciences and business. It provides examples of research and problem solving in environmental planning. Outline: Data presentation, measures of central tendency and variation, probability and decision theory, sampling distributions and hypothesis testing, regression and correlation, multiple and non linear regression, tests of goodness of fit and independence, analysis of variance, spatial analysis.