Higher Theory of Statistics - MATH2901
Faculty: Faculty of Science
School: School of Mathematics and Statistics
Course Outline: http://www.maths.unsw.edu.au/
Campus: Sydney
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 enrolment in program 3653 Software Engineering / Commerce and completion of either MATH1131 or MATH1141). Exclusion: CVEN2002, CVEN2025, CVEN2702, ECON2215, ECON1203
Excluded: BEES2041, BIOS2041, MATH2089, MATH2099, MATH2801, MATH2841, MATH2859
CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
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.