30 courses in the 1987–88 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
Notes
Courses not offered in the current academic year are listed at the end of this section.
Introductory Note
The following courses are offered in conjunction with the Division of Mathematics for Industry and Commerce: STAT 331, 332, 333, 335, 371, 443
STAT 202Elementary Statistics for BiologistsF 2C,1L 0.5
Elementary probability, populations, samples and distributions with biological examples. Methods for data summary and presentation including an introduction to interactive programming. Estimation, hypothesis testing, two-sample techniques and paired comparisons. Contingency tables.
STAT 220Introduction to Statistical Methods 1F 3C,1T 0.5
Introduction to design of experiments; descriptive statistics (histograms, summary statistics, stem and leaf plots, correlation); probability (the ‘normal and binomial distributions, other continuous and discrete distributions), chance vari- ‘ability (linear combinations of random variables, the central limit theorem). Prereq: MATH 1308 Not open to Honours Mathematics students. Antireq: STAT 230, 240
STAT 221Introduction to Statistical Methods 2W 3C,1T 0.5
Chance models (applied to measurement error and genetics); tests of significance (One-.and two-sample z- and t-tests); simple linear regression (including analysis of variance and parameter estimation); survey sampling (including estimation of means, totals and proportions in simple random sampling).
Estimation, tests of significance, probability plots. Contingency tables, normal distribution theory, simple linear regression. ; Prereq: MATH 230A, STAT 230: ~ Antireq: STAT 221, 241 Also offered at St. Jerome's College in the Winter term.
Review of normal theory. The multivariate normal distribution. Normal linear models. Variable selection. Extensions to weighted least squares and non-normal models. Prereq: MATH 234A,.STAT 231 Antireq: STAT 321
charts and their application. Acceptance sampling. Sequential methods in process control. Assessing the cost of quality. Introduction to experimental design.
An introduction to t.¢ use of probabilistic models inop. ._... research. Techniques and applications of queueing theory, inventory theory and reliability theory.
Introduction to designed experiments. Basic experimental! designs. Factorial arrangement of treatments. Confounding and fractional replication. Selected topics.
Review of the normal linear model; response surface methodology; nonlinear normal models; linear models for binary data and cross-classification; tog linear models for contingency tables; selected topics..
Problems associated with the analysis of stochastic systems and statistical data by computer; simulation techniques, numerical algorithms, programming. for statistical problems and statistical packages.
Discussion of general inference problems under the headings of point and interval estimation, hypothesis testing and decision theory. Large sample normal likelihoods, maximum likelinood estimation, theory of UMV estimation, least squares, Neyman-Pearson theory of hypothesis testing.