31 courses in the 1988–89 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
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 introduc-
tion 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: variability (linear combinations of random variables, the central limit theorem).
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.
STAT 304Statistics for the Physical Sciences 2W 2C,iL 0.5
Linear regression. Introduction to the design of experiments. Completely randomized and randomized block designs. Analysis of variance. Prereq: STAT 202 or 204 For Science students only.
Review of normal theory. Normal linear _ models. Variable selection. Weighted least squares. Non-normal models. Prereq: STAT 221 Not open to Honours Mathematics students. Antireq: STAT 331
The planning of surveys; simple random sampling; stratified sampling; ratio and difference estimators; cluster and systematic sampling. Prereq: STAT 221
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
An introduction to the use of probabilistic models in operations 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; log 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 likelihood estimation, theory of UMV estimation, least squares, Neyman-Pearson theory of hypothesis testing.