STAT 7000 - Introduction to Mathematics for Statistics

0 Credit Hours 3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours
Prerequisites: Admission to the MSAS program or permission of the program director.
This course provides the necessary background in calculus, linear algebra and statistics software for the students enrolled in the Master of Science program who need to refresh their knowledge. Topics in calculus include: continuous functions, derivatives, applications to finding minima and maxima of functions, integrals; elements of multivariate calculus: partial derivatives, solving optimization problems, multiple integrals. Topics in linear algebra include: matrices and operations with matrices, the inverse of a matrix, vectors in nR, linearly independent vectors in nR, linear transformations on nR, eigenvalues and eigenvectors. Statistics software topics: editing data, plotting data, performing descriptive statistics of data.