CMP SCI 5151: Statistical Methods for Data Science

Course Description

This course covers statistical inference with emphasis on applications and computer simulation. Topics may include multivariate distributions, transformations and combinations of random variables, sampling distributions, maximum likelihood, bootstrap, order statistics, hypothesis testing, likelihood ratio tests, Monte Carlo methods, Bayesian inference, and sufficient statistics. Students may not receive credit for bothCMP SCI 4151andCMP SCI 5151.