Probability and Statistics
Probability and statistics used across courses: random variables, distributions, moments, estimators and their properties.
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Expected value, variance, covariance, correlation and covariance matrix as summaries of random variables and vectors, how they transform under linear maps, and how independence simplifies them.
Estimators as random variables and the properties used to judge them (unbiasedness, asymptotic unbiasedness, consistency, covariance), with the sample mean and sample variance as the basic examples and the law of large numbers as the tool for limits.
How random variables are described by probabilities of events and by (joint, marginal, conditional) densities, and the standard distributions used in estimation, the uniform and the scalar and multivariate normal distribution.