040129 VO Statistics 1 (2017S)

Objective:
To introduce students to statistics

Topics include:
Logic and set theory, events and their probabilities, discrete random variables, continuous random variables, Central Limit Theorem, estimation, testing, linear regression, statistical software R

On successful completion of the course, students should be able to:
Calculate probabilities and conditional probabilities, work with random variables and distribution functions, apply the Central Limit Theorem, find the bias and mean square error of estimators, test statistical hypotheses, analyze data using linear models, display data using graphical methods

Teaching and learning methods:
Lectures