2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

MAT 346 - Advanced Topics in Probability and Statistics


A second course in Probability and Statistics. Topics studied include descriptive and inferential statistics; moment generating functions; multivariate distributions, jointly distributed random variables, marginal and conditional distributions, covariance and correlation coefficients; transformations, order statistics; point estimation, method of moments and maximum likelihood; interval estimation and hypothesis testing; simple and multiple linear regression; analysis of variance, nonparametric methods and time series analysis. Statistical software is used for exploratory data analysis and statistical inference based in real data relevant to applications.

Prerequisite: MAT 246  (with a minimum grade of C-) Corequisite:MAT 208  or Departmental Approval
1 semester 3 credits.
Spring