MAT 244 - Statistics

Course Objectives

1. To provide the concepts of sampling and sampling distributions.
2. To provide the applications of point estimation, confidence interval and hypothesis testing.
3. To provide the applications of Regression, correlation and analysis of variance.
4. Application of non-parametric tests.

Course Description

Sampling from a normal distribution. The likelihood function and maximum likelihood estimators. Unbiasness and consistency of point estimators. Fisher information and efficient estimators. Asymptotic properties of maximum likelihood estimators. Confidence intervals. Testing statistical hypothesis and test statistics. Optimal Tests, Powerful tests; power function, Neyman-Pearson Theorem. One-sample, Two-sample and paired models. Linear and logistic regression and correlation. Anova. Non-parametric methods.