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University of Alberta Calendar 2017-2018 
    
University of Alberta Calendar 2017-2018 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

STAT 266 - Statistics II


★ 3 (fi 6) (second term, 3-0-0) Functions of random variables, sampling distributions, Central Limit Theorem, law of large numbers, statistical models for the data, likelihood, parameters and their interpretation, objectives of statistical inference, point and interval estimation, method of moments, basic notions of testing of hypotheses, errors of the first and second kind, significance level, power, p-value. Prerequisite: STAT 265. Corequisites: MATH 215 or 317, and 225 or 227. Credit may not be obtained for both STAT 266 and either of STAT 222 or STAT 366.