DEPARTMENT OF STATIS TICS
BUCHTEL COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES
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Course Description
3470:451/551
Theoretical Statistics I
3 credits
Prerequisite: 3450:223 Analytic Geometry-Calculus III 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:
What is Statistics?
Probability
Discrete Random Variables and Their Probability Distributions
Continuous Random Variables and Their Probability Distributions
Multivariate Probability Distributions
Functions of Random Variables
Sampling Distributions and the Central Limit Theorem
Estimation
Fall 2014