STAT1520 Economic and Business Statistics (University of Western Australia): rated 3.7/5 overall across 68 reviews collected on UWA Wall.
STAT1520 is a University of Western Australia course taught by the Physics, Mathematics and Computing in Natural and Physical Sciences. This page brings together its handbook details and what UWA students say about it.
Review data updated 2026-10-24.
Chinese title: 经济与商业统计
Type: Undergraduate unit
Credit points: 6
Subject area: Natural and Physical Sciences
Faculty: Physics, Mathematics and Computing
Level: Undergraduate Level 1
Handbook year: 2026
This unit covers basic statistics and is compulsory for Bachelor of Commerce students. Topics include displaying and summarising data; random variables and their distributions; normal and binomial distributions; sampling distributions and hypothesis testing; confidence intervals; t-tests and F-tests; regression and correlation; goodness of fit; chi-square tests; and introduction to analysis of variance.
STAT1520 has 68 scored reviews: overall 3.7/5 · usefulness 4.1 (all out of 5; higher difficulty means harder).
Sources: 38 StudentVIP reviews (average 4.0 stars); 30 Reddit comments that an AI model judged to be reviewing this course (average would-recommend 3.2/5).
On Reddit: "its gonna be hard. i rmber when i took it yrs ago, they allowed us to bring whatever notes we took 😭 sounded too good to be true and was indeed too good to be true, as it was difficult as."
On Reddit: "Multi-choice isn’t straightforward - as a stats student I’m sure you’re aware that picking one of five answers at random isn’t likely to serve you. My advice is to study hard and bring good notes. If you’ve covered the semester practice stuff you’ll be fine. From my experience t…"
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Q: Is STAT1520 worth taking?
A: Averaged over 68 reviews: usefulness 4.1/5, overall 3.7/5.
Q: Which faculty teaches STAT1520, and when is it offered?
A: STAT1520 is taught by the Physics, Mathematics and Computing. Check the official handbook for the current year.
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