STSCI 3080 - Probability Models and Inference

(crosslisted)
(also BTRY 3080, ILRST 3080)

Fall. 4 credits.

Forbidden Overlap: Students may receive credit for only one course in the following group: STSCI 3080/BTRY 3080, ECON 3190, MATH 4710.

Staff.

This course provides an introduction to probability and parametric inference. Topics include: random variables, standard distributions, the law of large numbers, the central limit theorem, likelihood-based estimation, sampling distributions and hypothesis testing, as well as an introduction to Bayesian methods. Some assignments may involve computation using the R programming language.