This course provides students with a solid foundation of the concepts, theory, and methods in probability and statistics, including random variable and distributions, statistical estimation and inference methods, and multivariate statistics and linear models. Emphasis will be placed on intuitive and rigorous understanding of the fundamentals of probability statistics but implementation of the methods via computer programming in R or Matlab will be an important part of the course as well.

Continuous Assessment: 75%

Examination: 25%

Examination Duration: 2 hours