Statistics 315 - Statistics I

Spring
2026
06
3.00
Theodore Westling

TU TH 2:30PM 3:45PM

UMass Amherst
82978
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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