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Course: Statistics I Level: Undergraduate Time: Currently not offered |
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Syllabus Past Exams Syllabus: Introduction to Statistics with examples of its use; Descriptive statistics; Graphical representation of data: Histogram, Stem-leaf diagram, Box-plot; Exploratory statistical analysis with a statistical package; Basic distributions, properties; Model fitting and model checking: Basics of estimation, method of moments, Basics of testing, interval estimation; Distribution theory for transformations of random vectors; Sampling distributions based on normal populations: t, x2 and Fx distributions. Bivariate data, covariance, correlation and least squares. References Texts: 1. Lambert H. Koopmans: An introduction to contemporary statistics 2. David S Moore and William I Notz: Statistics Concepts and Controversies 3. David S Moore, George P McCabe and Bruce Craig: Introduction to the Practice of Statistics 4. Larry Wasserman: All of Statistics. A Concise Course in Statistical Inference 5. John A. Rice: Mathematical Statistics and Data Analysis. Top of the page Past Exams | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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