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STA 667 - Introduction to Mathematical Statistics


Credits 3

Introduction to statistical inference, distributions of random variables, common discrete and continuous probability models, transformations limiting distributions, sufficiency, completeness, unbiasedness, the information inequality, unbiased estimation, the methods of moments, maximum likelihood estimation, Bayesian estimation, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, uniformly most powerful tests, likelihood ratio tests and related procedures, linear models, and non-parametric models.

Notes
This course is crosslisted with STAT 467. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.

The 600-level MAT and STA courses that are normally available for graduate credit are those numbered 650 or higher; the exceptions are

 , which may be counted for graduate credit in an education degree program, and  ,  , and  , which may be counted for graduate credit in a biological sciences program.