Math 335: Probability and Statistics
Tom Moore, instructor
Office: Science 2610
Phone: 4206
Email: mooret

Course Goals:
This course is the first half of a year long, mathematically based, introduction to fundamentals in probability and statistics. This semester we will cover about 10 weeks of probability followed by 4 weeks of statistics, although, where possible, we will use probability examples that foreshadow the statistics. Particular goals of the course:

• To gain intuition and understanding of the concept of probability.
• To use the properties of probability to calculate simple and complex probabilities, including conditional probabilities.
• To gain basic facility in writing and learning from simple computer simulations of probabilistic experiments.
• To understand the fundamental concepts of discrete and continuous distributions and how to work with them mathematically to model worldly phenomena. Included here is facility with special distributions such as the binomial, poisson, normal, and gamma.
• To understand basic concepts in statistical estimation.