Distributions and inferential techniques
BS BT BB BN DT BC BP BDT
Associate Professor Philip Rayment
6 points * Second semester * 4 hours per week * Gippsland/Distance * Prerequisites: GAS1611, GAS1631
The subject is divided into two sections of approximately equal weight. Section A - Statistical distributions: univariate distributions (review of basic concepts, moments, use of moment generating functions in distribution theory, standard distributions - useful in statistical analysis); multivariate distributions: joint and conditional distributions; sampling distributions of sample statistics including sample moments and order statistics.Section B - Techniques of inferential statistics: parameter estimation (criteria and methodology of point and interval estimation); parametric hypothesis testing (basic concepts, likelihood ratio tests, simple applications, including the chi-squared goodness-of-fit test); brief introduction to non-parametric methods.
Assessment
Assignments: 50% * Examination: 50%
Prescribed texts
Mendenhall W and others Mathematical statistics with applications 4th edn, PWS-Kent, 1986