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Continuation of STAT 200. Review of the basics of estimation, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing. Simple and multiple regression, time series, analysis of variance and non-parametric methods. A statistical software package will be used extensively.

Basics of probability; descriptive statistics; discrete and continuous distributions; confidence intervals and tests of hypotheses concerning means, variances, and proportions; simple linear regression; statistical software. MATH 210 is recommended, in addition to the prerequisites listed.

Simple linear regression and multiple regression including inference, diagnostics and transformations. One-way and multi-way analysis of variance including inference, diagnostics and transformations. Use of professional statistical software.

Moments and moment-generating functions, conditional expectations, multivariate binomial and normal distributions, functions of random variables, sampling distributions, decision theory, theory of estimation and hypothesis testing.