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302316 (v.1) Statistical Inference 301
  
Area: | Department of Mathematics and Statistics |  
Contact Hours: | 4.0 |  
Credits: | 25.0 |  
Lecture: | 3 x 1 Hours Weekly |  
Tutorial: | 1 x 1 Hours Weekly |  
Prerequisite(s): | 302315 (v.2) Mathematical Statistics 202  or any previous version 
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  | Procedures and properties of estimators -  Fisher information, Cramer-Rao bound, consistency, sufficiency and Rao-Blackwell theorem.  Hypothesis testing - Neyman-Pearson Lemma likelihood ratio, power function and confidence sets.  Bayesian inference and nexus with likelihood.  Monte Carlo, Boot-Strap and resampling Methods.  Review of matrix algebra-random vectors, mean vectors and covariance matrices. Multivariate normal and its associated distributions. |  
 
 Availability
| Year | Location | Period | Internal | Area External | Central External |  | 2004 | Bentley Campus | Semester 1 | Y |   |   |   
 
Area External | refers to external course/units run by the School or Department, offered online or through Web CT, or offered by research. |  
Central External | refers to external course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area |  
 
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