STAT 410 or equivalent. Point estimation, sufficiency, completeness, Cramer-Rao inequality, maximum likelihood. Confidence intervals for parameters of normal distribution. Hypotheses testing, most powerful tests, likelihood ratio tests. Chi-square tests, analysis of variance, regression, correlation.
Course is offered in the spring semester only.
STAT 400 or permission of instructor. Descriptive and inferential statistics. Least squares, regression, graphics and informal diagnostics, interpreting results. Categorical data, lifetime data, time series. Applications to engineering, life science, business and social science.