Statistics

The second half of a two part sequence covering various topics in probability and statistics. This course provides an introduction to essential techniques of statistical inference. Samples and statistics versus population and parameters. Brief introduction to method of moments and maximum likelihood. Tests and intervals for means, variances and proportions (one and two sample). Multiple regression, residual plots. Analysis of variance. Brief introduction to experimental design. Chi-squared tests. Examples drawn from engineering, computing science and business. Use of a statistical computer package.