Course Description

MA341 Introduction to the Theory of Statistics 0.5

Review of problems and objectives of parametric statistics; likelihood function; methods of finding estimators; properties of estimators; interval estimation; hypothesis testing procedures; Neyman-Pearson Lemma and likelihood ratio testing.†

Prerequisite: MA201, and one of MA140*, MA141, or MA240 (or permission of the Department).

Official electronic version updated on November 10, 2000

M. Watson, Editor