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2024-2025 University Catalog 
    
2024-2025 University Catalog

STAT 41700 - Statistical Theory


Credit Hours: 3.00.  An introduction to the mathematical theory of statistical inference, emphasizing inference for standard parametric families of distributions. Properties of estimators. Maximum likelihood estimation. Sufficient statistics. Hypothesis tests and confidence intervals. Distribution theory for common statistics based on normal distributions, including linear regression. Bayesian Statistics include posterior inference, posterior mean, maximum a-posteriori estimator, credible intervals, and Bayesian hypothesis testing. Credits: 3.00