Department of Statistics

Recent Instructors Gerig, Tom	ST 422	Introduction to Mathematical Statistics II
	Course Description Second of a two-semester sequence of mathematical statistics, primarily for undergraduate majors and graduate minors in Statistics. Random samples, point and interval estimators and their properties, methods of moments, maximum likelihood, tests of hypotheses, elements of nonparametric statistics and elements of general linear model theory. Course Syllabus Data reduction and sufficiency Properties of estimators Construction of estimators Distributions derived from the Normal Hypothesis testing Analysis of variance Regression Course Prerequisites ST 421 MA 242 Course Corequisites None Recent Textbooks Mathematical Statistics with Applications, 6 ed., Wackerly, Mendenhall, and Schaeffer (2002)