STK4900 – Statistical Methods and Applications
Course description
Course content
Learning outcome
Admission to the course
Students admitted at UiO must apply for courses in Studentweb. Students enrolled in other Master's Degree Programmes can, on application, be admitted to the course if this is cleared by their own study programme.
Nordic citizens and applicants residing in the Nordic countries may apply to take this course as a single course student.
If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures for international applicants.
Recommended previous knowledge
- STK1000 – Introduction to Applied Statistics or STK1100 – Probability and Statistical Modelling or STK-FYS1110 – Probability, modeling and data analysis for the physical subjects
- An introductory course in mathematics
Overlapping courses
- 10 credits overlap with STK3900 – Statistical methods and applications (discontinued).
- 10 credits overlap with STK9900 – Statistical Methods and Applications.
- 9 credits overlap with ST301.
- 9 credits overlap with ST301.
- 5 credits overlap with STK2000 – Some central models and methods in statistic (discontinued).
- 5 credits overlap with STK3100 – Introduction to Generalized Linear Models.
- 5 credits overlap with ST-IN216.
- 5 credits overlap with STK4100 – Introduction to Generalized Linear Models.
- 5 credits overlap with ST213.
- 5 credits overlap with ST202.
- 3 credits overlap with ST202A.
- 3 credits overlap with STK2120 – Statistical Methods and Data Analysis 2 (discontinued).
- 3 credits overlap with STK1120 – Statistical methods and data analysis 2 (continued).
- 2 credits overlap with STK1110 – Statistical Methods and Data Analysis.
Teaching
Teaching will be given intensively over two separate weeks. In these two weeks there will be teaching 09:15-16:00 every day.
The course may be taught in Norwegian if the lecturer and all students at the first lecture agree to it.
Examination
Final written exam or final oral exam, which counts 100 % towards the final grade.
The form of examination will be announced by the lecturer by 1 October/1 March for the autumn semester and the spring semester respectively.
This course has 2 mandatory assignments that must be approved before you can sit the final exam.
Lectures, exercises and the compulsory assignment are given jointly for STK4900 and STK9900, but the exam questions are not the same for the two courses.
Examination support material
Written examination: All printed and hand-written resources and approved calculators are allowed. Information about approved calculators (Norwegian only).
Oral examination: No examination support material is allowed.
Language of examination
Grading scale
Resit an examination
Students who can document a valid reason for absence from the regular examination are offered a postponed examination at the beginning of the next semester.
Re-scheduled examinations are not offered to students who withdraw during, or did not pass, the original examination.
More about examinations at UiO
- Use of sources and citations
- How to use AI as a student
- Special exam arrangements due to individual needs
- Withdrawal from an exam
- Illness at exams / postponed exams
- Explanation of grades and appeals
- Resitting an exam
- Cheating/attempted cheating
You will find further guides and resources at the web page on examinations at UiO.