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MATHEMATICAL STATISTICS I

MATH/STAT 709
Course Description

An introduction to measure theoretic probability, random variables, and high-dimensional statistics; conditional expectation, sufficiency, and unbiased estimation; methods of large sample theory including laws of large numbers and central limit theorems.

Prerequisties

Declared in Statistics MS, Statistics PhD, Biomedical Data Science PhD, Biomedical Data Science MS, or Statistics Doctoral Minor

Satisfies
Credits

4

Offered

Occasionally

Grade Point Average
3.67

4.69% from Historical

Completion Rate
100%

0.25% from Historical

A Rate
50%

23.78% from Historical

Class Size
26

21.67% from Historical

Instructors (2025 Fall)

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