Organization and graphical representation of statistical data. Descriptive statistics (measures of location, dispersion, skewness, kurtosis).
Distribution families (exponential family).
Estimation: Point estimation, properties of point estimators (consistency, unbiasedness, efficiency, sufficiency, mean squared error), methods of point estimation (method of moments, method of least squares, method of maximum likelihood, Minimax, Bayes).
Sampling and sampling distributions.
Confidence intervals: Confidence intervals for the mean, variance, percentage of a population, and for the difference of the means, the ratio of the variances, the difference of the percentages in case of normal and non-normal populations.
Hypothesis testing.
Bibliography
Mood A.M., Graybill F.A., Boes D.C., Introduction to the theory of Statistics. McGraw-Hill. 1974
Rohatgi V.K. An introduction to probability theory and mathematical statistics. Wiley. 1976