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This is an introductory course in statistics. Topics that we will cover include elementary statistical measures, statistical distributions, statistical inference, hypothesis testing and linear ...

Examines point and confidence interval estimation. Principles of maximum likelihood, sufficiency, and completeness; tests of simple and composite hypotheses, linear models, and multiple regression ...

In the early 1970s, statisticians had difficulty in analysing data where the random variation of the errors did not come from the bell-shaped normal distribution. Besides normality, these traditional ...