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STAT 266 - Statistics II


Course Career Undergraduate
Units 3
Approved Hours 3-0-0
Fee index 6
Faculty Science
Department Mathematical & Statistical Sci
Typically Offered second term

Description
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, pvalue. Prerequisite: STAT 265. Corequisites: One of MATH 225 or 227, and one of MATH 215 or 317.