Base stats knowledge required for CT3?

[Oldy-but-Goody]

Hi there

I will be sitting CT3 in the Autumn exams, however, I'm a mature student who last studied some stats 14 years ago as part of my Economics degree.

What would be great to know is to what degree is CT3 a self contained stats course, and how much of it relies on a base stats knowledge?

I already own Statspack if a lot of background knowledge is required, but would obviously love to hear that I'll learn everything I require just from studying CT3!

Many thanks for any help.

Regards

 

[John Lee]

Hi there

I will be sitting CT3 in the Autumn exams, however, I'm a mature student who last studied some stats 14 years ago as part of my Economics degree.

What would be great to know is to what degree is CT3 a self contained stats course, and how much of it relies on a base stats knowledge?

I already own Statspack if a lot of background knowledge is required, but would obviously love to hear that I'll learn everything I require just from studying CT3!

Many thanks for any help.

Regards

StatsPack has all you need in terms of the base knowledge - so you should be fine!

 

[Oldy-but-Goody]

StatsPack has all you need in terms of the base knowledge - so you should be fine!

Does that mean I'll have to study Statspack first before tackling CT3, or can all the knowledge be gleaned from CT3 with Statspack just serving as a backup for topics which I'm not grasping?

 

[Turtlelord]

Having just studied CT3 without any prior stats, I found that it was self contained. I did not require any further stats packs or stats textbooks.

 

[Ex-muso]

I was in a pretty similar position to you (fellow oldy!)

Think you'll be OK to plunge in, and - as you say - refer to the pack if needed.

Just taken exam and don't know if I passed, but passing was certainly a possibility. If anything the parts I found trickier were the parts involving somewhat trickier "pure" maths skills, such as the Generating Functions and some of the more complicated maximum likelihood estimator algebra.

 

[Oldy-but-Goody]

Having just studied CT3 without any prior stats, I found that it was self contained. I did not require any further stats packs or stats textbooks.

Thanks!

 

[Tele76]

I too was in a similar position.

My stats knowledge was pretty much zero and took me a lot of study time to get to grips with CT3. And I still performed poorly in the exam, so maybe I'm just a bit thick.

Anyway, I think the CMP should be all you need, but would recommend you start as early as possible as the concepts take a while to bed in.

 

[John Lee]

Does that mean I'll have to study Statspack first before tackling CT3, or can all the knowledge be gleaned from CT3 with Statspack just serving as a backup for topics which I'm not grasping?

Nope - you can study them concurrently - it's very clearly marked which chapters it supports and it is written so you can dip into as you have need.

Perhaps the best thing is to order the CT3 CMP - see how you get on and if you get in a pickle then get the StatsPack to help out.