F78ZC - Fundamentals of Statistics

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Syllabus

1. Moment Generating Functions

2. Construction of statistical models

3. Sampling distributions and some properties of estimators

4. Introduction the the method of moments and maximum likelihood

5. Simulation and statistical computing

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, students should be able to do the following:

• Use moment generating functions in the context of means, variances and other properties of random variable.
• Evaluate different estimators for population parameters using their desirable properties such as unbiasedness and efficiency
• Construct estimators for population parameters using methods of moments and maximum likelihood estimation techniques.

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SCQF Level: 8

Credits: 7.5