MAT 244E - Statistics

Course Objectives

This course aims to:

To provide the concepts of sampling and sampling distributions.

To provide the applications of point estimation, confidence interval and hypothesis testing .

To provide the applications of regression analysis and analysis of variance.

Course Description

This course is an introductory level statistics course on introducing following concepts: sampling from a normal distribution, maximum likelihood estimation, asymptotic properties of maximum likelihood estimators, confidence intervals and pivotal quantities, testing statistical hypothesis and test statistics, optimal tests, powerful tests: power function, Neyman-Pearson theorem, likelihood ratio tests, sufficient statistics, simple linear regression and correlation, analysis of variance.