STA 130A

Mathematical Statistics: Brief Course

Basic probability, densities and distributions, mean, variance, covariance, Chebyshev's inequality, some special distributions, sampling distributions, central limit theorem and law of large numbers, point estimation, some methods of estimation, interval estimation, confidence intervals for certain quantities, computing sample sizes.

Units: 4.0

Hours: Lecture—3 hour(s); Discussion—1 hour(s).