| Credit |
0.125 EFTSL |
| ICRAR Node |
University of Western Australia |
| Unit Code |
Enrol at UWA in PHYS5513 Computational Statistics for Physics |
| Offering |
Semester 2 |
| UWA Handbook |
PHYS5513 for the most up-to-date information |
| Content |
- This unit provides key tools for the statistical and numerical analysis of complex problems in physics and astrophysics. It includes a solid introduction to the R statistical programming language and contains many practical examples, mainly from cosmology and astrophysics, but extending to general physics and medicine.
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| Learning Outcomes |
- Students are able to (1) use R, interface with other scientific languages and I/O scientific data; (2) demonstrate mastery essential numerical analysis techniques in R and benefit from various packages to quickly solve numerical problems.; (3) explain basic statistical concepts (probability trees, joint probabilities, ensembles, resampling, frequentist statistics, tests, correlations, distributions, expectations, moments); (4) apply Bayesian inference to a wide range of scientific problems and master related concepts (maximum likelihood, Fisher information, Laplace approximation, Jeffreys prior); (5) demonstrate understanding of advanced inference problems and packages available to solve them; including by MCMC algorithms.; and (6) demonstrate mastery temporal and spatial statistical estimators and their Fourier space representations.
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| Assessment |
- Indicative assessments in this unit are as follows: (1) programming assignments and (2) written assignments. Further information is available in the unit outline.
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| Unit Coordinator(s) |
Danail Obreschkow and Aaron Robotham |