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Statistics (STAT)

School of Mathematics and Statistics Faculty of Science

STAT 2655 [0.5 credit]

Introduction to Probability with Applications (Honours)

Axioms of probability, basic combinatorial analysis, conditional probability and independence, discrete and continuous random variables, joint and conditional distributions, expectation, central limit theorem, sampling distributions, simulation and applications to descriptive statistics. A statistical software package will be used.
Precludes additional credit for STAT 2605.
Prerequisites: one of MATH 1002 or MATH 2007 or MATH 1005 with a grade of C+ or better; and one of MATH 1102 or MATH 1107 or MATH 1104 with a grade of C+ or better.
Lectures three hours a week, tutorial one hour a week.


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