MAT 31143 PROBABILITY

An intuitive study of calculus based probability and its application to inferential statistics.  Topics covered include discrete, continuous, and bivariate random variables and their disributions, expectations, conditional expectation, Bayes' Rule, moment generating functions, covariance, variance, distributions for functions of random variables, order statistics and their distribution, correlation, and least squares regression modeling.  Prerequisite: A C or better in MAT 21144 Calculus II or consent of the instructor.