Contract Academic Position Details

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NOTE: Course offerings are subject to budgetary approval


Posting Reference: STAT 2263 SJ01B


Course Information

Course Prefix: STAT Course Number: 2263
Course Section: SJ01B Course Name: Statistics for Health Sciences and Non-Science Majors
Term: Winter Campus:Saint John
Faculty: Science, Applied Science and Engineering, Faculty of Department: Mathematics and Statistics
Position Start Date: 2020-01-01 Position End Date: 2020-04-30
Posting Date: 2019-08-22 Application Deadline: 2019-09-06
Applications to be submitted via: email email mathstatsj@unb.ca
Requested By: Dr. Tim Alderson


Class Details

Days: MW Time: 11:30am - 12:50pm
Number of Positions Available: 1 Total Credit Hours: 3 ch (3C)
Mode of Delivery: Face to Face Location: On Campus
Stipend Amount: $6445


Curriculum Context

An introductory course in statistics. Experiments, sampling, basic descriptive statistics. Probability, random variables, Normal distribution. Confidence intervals for means and proportions. Tests of hypotheses. paired samples vs. two independent samples. Contingency tables. Regression, correlation. Introduction to analysis of variance. Examples drawn from the health sciences. Use of a statistical computer package. NOTE: Credit can be obtained for only one of STAT 1793, STAT 2263, STAT 2593, BA 1605, PSYCH 2901.

Prerequisites: A New Brunswick high school mathematics course, either Pre-Calculus 110 or Foundations of Mathematics 120, or equivalent. 



Course Description

An introductory course in statistics. Experiments, sampling, basic descriptive statistics. Probability, random variables, Normal distribution. Confidence intervals for means and proportions. Tests of hypotheses. paired samples vs. two independent samples. Contingency tables. Regression, correlation. Introduction to analysis of variance. Examples drawn from the health sciences. Use of a statistical computer package. NOTE: Credit can be obtained for only one of STAT 1793, STAT 2263, STAT 2593, BA 1605, PSYCH 2901.

Prerequisites: A New Brunswick high school mathematics course, either Pre-Calculus 110 or Foundations of Mathematics 120, or equivalent. 



Qualifications

Masters degree in Mathematics or equivalent (with PhD preferred).



Additional Notes

Position is subject to final budgetary approval and may be subject to minimum enrolment.

http://www.unb.ca/hr/_resources/pdf/agreements/caecollectiveagreemen20162020final1.pdf

Applicants who are graduate students please submit the Part Time Employment Form with sections 1 and 2 completed with your application package.  https://www.unb.ca/gradstudies/_assets/pdfs/part_time_empl_graduate.pdf

Delayed posting waiver obtained.



Disposition

Instructor(s) hired

Is the instructor a Graduate Student Teaching Apprentice

no

Successful Applicant(s)

Dr. J. McNally


Preference will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada