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IMPORTANT NOTICE:
Scheduled teaching activities and/or workload information are subject to change in response to COVID-19, please check your Unit timetable and Unit Moodle site for more details.
Learning outcomes
understand concepts of probability, statistical inference, generating functions and cumulants
derive and use generating functions to evaluate moments and establish the distribution of linear combinations of independent random variables
understand and apply the main methods of estimation and the main properties of estimators
construct confidence intervals for unknown parameters and test hypotheses
develop written, presentation and group work skills through a series of assessed essays, assignments and tutorial work.
Teaching approach
Assessment
Scheduled and non-scheduled teaching activities
Workload requirements
Other unit costs
Costs are indicative and subject to change.
Electronics, calculators and tools: $40