Statistics 315 - Statistics I
Fall
2025
01
3.00
Theodore Westling
M W 2:30PM 3:45PM
UMass Amherst
67372
Lederle Grad Res. Ctr rm A201
twestling@umass.edu
First semester of a two-semester sequence. Emphasis given to probability theory necessary for application to and understanding of statistical inference. Probability models, sample spaces, conditional probability, independence. Random variables, expectation, variance, and various discrete and continuous probability distributions. Sampling distributions, the Central Limit Theorem and normal approximations. Multivariate calculus introduced as needed. (Gen. Ed. R2)
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