Statistics 315 - Statistics I
Spring
2026
01
3.00
Kien Nguyen
TU TH 10:00AM 11:15AM
UMass Amherst
82945
Lederle Grad Res. Ctr rm A201
kiennguyen@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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