SYLLABUS

COURSE: STAT 7600; Statistical Theory and Methods

CLASS TIME: Tuesday/Thursday 11:00-12:15 p.m.

LOCATION: Parker 224

PROFESSOR: Mark Carpenter, Ph.D., Professor of Statistics

E-MAIL: carpedm@auburn.edu

WEBPAGE: http://www.auburn.edu/~carpedm

PREREQ: STAT 7600 is a calculus based course. You will be expected to have a mastery of calculus (at least 1-year of

undergraduate calculus and an undergraduate mathematical statistics course like STAT 3600). You will have to be very familiar with differentiation, integration, sequences and series.

OFFICE: Parker Hall, RM 364-A

OFFICE HOURS: Tuesday, Thursday & Wednesday 10:00-11:00 a.m. or by appointment

TEXT: Statistical Inference, 2^nd Edition, Casella and Berger.

COVERAGE: All or parts of Chapters 1-6 of the above listed text. .

SOFTWARE: Some statistical simulations for demonstration of theory will be done in SAS, R and Maple.

COURSE

GRADE: TBA