Statistical Inference

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Understand properties of maximum likelihood estimators
• Evaluate different estimators using their theoretical properties;
• Derive generating functions and use them to determine distributions and moments
• Understand concepts of Bayesian inference
• Understand concept of a hypothesis test and confidence intervals and how to construct these with good properties
• Find distributions of functions of random variables, including distributions of maximum and minimum observations, and use these results to derive methods to simulate observations from standard distributions

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.