ILRST 3110 - Probability Models and Inference for the Social Sciences

(crosslisted) ECON 3110, STSCI 3110

Fall, Spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

Forbidden Overlap: due to an overlap in content, students will receive credit for only one course in the following group: BTRY 3080, ECON 3110, ECON 3130, ILRST 3110, MATH 4710, STSCI 3080, STSCI 3110.
Prerequisite: MATH 1110 or equivalent.

T. DiCiccio.

This course provides an introduction to probability and parametric inference. Topics include: random variables, standard distributions, the law of large numbers, the central limit theorem, likelihood-based estimation, sampling distributions and hypothesis testing.