DEPARTMENT OF STATIS TICS
BUCHTEL COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES
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Course Description
3470:452/552
Theoretical Statistics II
3 credits
Prerequisite: 3470:451/551 Theoretical Statistics I or equivalent
Course Description: Elementary combinatorial probability theory, probability
distributions, mathematical expectation, functions of random variables, sampling
distributions, point and interval estimation, tests of hypotheses, regression and
correlation, introduction to experimental designs. May not be used to meet graduate
major requirements in statistics.
Course Topics:
Properties of point estimators
Maximum Likelihood
Lehmann-Scheffe Theorem
Interval estimation
Test of Hypotheses
Type-I and Type-II Error Probabilities; P-values
Neyman-Pearson Lemma
Likelihood ratio tests
Linear Models and least squares
Regression
Correlation: Practical Examples
ANOVA
Fall 2014