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STATISTICS

STATISTICS

Note: Statistics courses are offered by the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.

STATISTICS 1770
Introduction to Probability and Statistics

Credit hours: 3.0
Contact hours per week: 3-0-1

Descriptive statistics and graphical representation. Measure of central tendency and dispersion. Elementary probability. Discrete and continuous random variables. Expectation. Binomial, normal and Student's t-distribution. Large and small sample inference and estimation. Central Limit Theorem.

Prerequisite: Mathematics 30 or Pure Mathematics 30, or Applied Mathematics 30 and at least 75% standing in Athabasca University's Mathematics 101.

STATISTICS 2780
Statistical Inference
Credit hours: 3.0
Contact hours per week: 3-0-1

Hypothesis testing. Comparison of variances. Chi-square distribution. Contingency tables. Elementary design of experiments. Random sampling. Analysis of variance. Regression and correlation. Examples to illustrate the theory are drawn from a wide variety of fields.

Prerequisite: Statistics 1770.

Note: Credit is not allowed for Statistics 2780 and Economics 2900.

STATISTICS 3850
Topics in Statistics
Credit hours: 3.0
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0
STATISTICS 4850
Topics in Statistics
Credit hours: 3.0
Contact hours per week: 3-0-0