Statistical Methods I. 3 credits, 3 contact hours

Catalog description

Prerequisite: MATH 244 with a grade of C or better or MATH 333 with a grade of C or better. Covers applications of classical statistical inference. Topics include transformation of variables, moment generating technique for distribution of variables, introduction to sampling distributions, point and interval estimation, maximum likelihood estimators, basic statistical hypotheses and tests of parametric hypotheses about means of normal populations, chi-square tests of homogeneity, independence, goodness-of-fit.