Statistics 315 - Statistics I
Spring
2026
02
3.00
Carlos Soto
TU TH 4:00PM 5:15PM
UMass Amherst
82966
Lederle Grad Res. Ctr rm A201
carlossoto@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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