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Independent study of a selected list of readings approved by the faculty advisor. Departmental approval required.

This is a capstone course for the statistics minor. Students will complete a major statistics project. It will include designing an experiment, collecting the data, analyzing the data, and giving oral and written reports explaining the analysis and conclusions. Senior standing or permission of the instructor is required.

Selected readings, discussions, data analysis on a topic in statistics. Permission of department required.

Study of linear time series, moving averages and auto regressive models. Estimation, confidence intervals, forecasting and data analysis with time series models will be examined.

Development of fundamental mathematical tools and language of quantitative risk management. Multivariate probability distributions including joint, conditional and marginal distributions, probabilities, moments, variance and covariance.