Department of Statistics

Current Sections   Recent Instructors Gerig, Tom	ST 421	Introduction to Mathematical Statistics I
	Course Description First of a two-semester sequence of mathematical statistics, primarily for undergraduate majors and graduate minors in Statistics. Introduction to probability, univariate and multivariate probability distributions and their properties, distributions of functions of random variables, random samples and sampling distributions. Course Syllabus Event probability Combinatorics Discrete random variables and their distributions Expectation Continuous random variables and their distributions Distributions of functions of random variables Moments and moment generating functions Limit theory Course Prerequisites MA 242, Calculus III Exposure to Probability and Statistics (recommended) Course Corequisites None Recent Textbooks Mathematical Statistics with Applications, 6 ed., Wackerly, Mendenhall, and Schaeffer (2002)