Handbook

This course is the entry point for a statistics major and a prerequisite for most higher-level statistics courses. Statistics has important connections with many branches of mathematics and offers an interesting career path for the mathematically minded. This course will introduce the basics of statistics from a mathematical perspective. Topics include random variables, univariate, and bivariate distributions, transformations of random variables, convergence of random variables, the sampling distribution and the Central Limit Theorem. Estimation and inference which include moment and likelihood estimation, interval estimation, and hypothesis testing are also covered. Students in MATH2901 will focus on proof and theoretical considerations, extension material and challenge questions. MATH2801 will focus more on the core material and developing key skills in mathematical statistics.