Catalog Description: Estimation, confidence intervals, Neyman Pearson lemma, likelihood ratio test, hypothesis testing, chi square test, regression, analysis of variance, nonparametric methods.
Prerequisite: AMS 311
3 credits
Textbook: An Introcution to Mathematical Statistics and Its Applications, by Larsen and Marx, Prentice-Hall
THIS COURSE IS TAUGHT IN THE SPRING SEMESER ONLY
Spring 2010 Section
52495 LEC 01 MF 12:50-2:10PM Loc: TBA Inst: Wei Zhu AMS 312 Webpage
Topics
1. Point Estimation (first half of Chap. 8) – 4 class hours.
2. Sampling Distributions (Chap. 7) – 2 class hours.
3. Properties of Point Estimators and Methods of Estimation (Chap. 9) – 8 class hours.
4. Interval Estimation (second half of Chap. 8) – 6 class hours.
5. Hypothesis Testing (Chap. 10) – 7 class hours
6. Linear Models and Least Squares (Chap. 11) – 6 class hours.
7. Analysis of Variance (Cap. 13) –5 class hours.
8. Examinations and Review – 4 class hours.