BTRY 4090 - Theory of Statistics

(crosslisted)
(also STSCI 4090)

Spring. 4 credits.

Prerequisites: BTRY 3080 or equivalent and at least one introductory statistics course.

Staff.

Introduction to classical theory of parametric statistical inference that builds on the material covered in BTRY 4080. Topics include sampling distributions, principles of data reduction, likelihood, parameter estimation, hypothesis testing, interval estimation, and basic asymptotic theory.