Fiqws 12201: The Statistical Study
Supervisor: Ralph KoppermanWe look at mathematical issues involved in planning and carrying out a truthful statisical study. Among them are sampling and data analysis. We cover the following topics from elementary probability and descriptive statistics:
Frequency histograms; the multiplication rule; conditional probability; probability distributions; independent events; Bayes' theorem; random variables, expected values; testing statistical hypotheses; correlation; linear regression and least squares.
