Statistics

STAT3083Probability and Mathematical Statistics I3 ch (3C)

The first half of a two-part sequence covering various topics in probability and statistics. This course provides an introduction to probability theory and the theory of random variables and their distributions. Probability laws. Discrete and continuous random variables. Means, variances, and moment generating functions. Sums of random variables. Joint discrete distributions. Central Limit Theorem. Examples drawn from engineering, science, computing science and business. 

Prerequisite: MATH 1013 . Note: Credit can be obtained in only one of STAT 2593 or 3083 .