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Higher Theory of Statistics - MATH2901
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Faculty: Faculty of Science
 
 
School:  School of Mathematics and Statistics
 
 
Course Outline: http://www.maths.unsw.edu.au/
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 4
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: MATH1231 or MATH1241 or MATH1251 (or, in program 3653, MATH1131 or MATH1141). Exclusion: MATH2099.
 
 
Excluded: BEES2041, BIOS2041, CVEN2002, CVEN2025, CVEN2702, ECON2215, MATH2049, MATH2089, MATH2801, MATH2829, MATH2839, MATH2841, MATH2859, MATH2899, MINE2700
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

As for MATH2801 but in greater depth:
This course provides an introduction to the theoretical underpinning of statistics; it covers fundamental results from probability and distribution theory and shows how to apply the theory to the analysis of data. Topics include: Random variables, univariate and bivariate distributions. Transformations of random variables. Convergence of random variables, the sampling distribution and the Central Limit Theorem. Estimation and inference including moment and likelihood estimation, interval estimation, and hypothesis testing.

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