James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2003

MA5410:03

Mathematical Statistics

Townsville HECS Band 2

13 hours lectures, 13 hours tutorials. Semester 1 or 2.

Available to honours or postgraduate students in mathematics.

Staff: Assoc. Professor D Coomans.

Properties of estimators, likelihood ratio tests, inference and modelling in Bayesian statistics, inference and modelling in robust statistics.

Learning Objectives:

  1. an understanding of the theoretical principles of statistics.

Assessment by coursework assignments.