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Module Name
Module Code
Lecture Hrs
Practical Hrs
Credits
Probability and Inferential Statistics
STAT5161
3
0
3

Description
Exploratory data analysis; Probability; Concepts of random variable, Probability distribution, Moments; Probability generating function, Moment generating function, Cumulant generating function; Discrete and Continuous distributions; Concepts of independence, Bayes theorem; Central Limit Theorem; Concepts of random sampling, statistical inference and sampling distribution; Confidence Intervals; Hypotheses testing ; Maximum likelihood estimation and its asymptotic properties; Introduction to Bayesian ideas; Prior and posterior distributions; Correlation analysis and Regression analysis; Concepts of Analysis of Variance; Concepts of Conditional Expectation and Compound Distribution.
Faculty Department
FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES Department of Economics and Statistics
Contact Details
Administrative assistant: DILMAHOMED BOCUS Bibi Swaleha
Telephone: 4037400
Email: s.dilmahomed@uom.ac.mu
 

 


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