SISG 2017 Module 1 Probability and Statistical Inference

Module info

  • Location In Person
  • Room T 739
  • Meeting Times Mon, Jul 10, 8:30am - Wed, Jul 12, 12pm PST
  • Instructors James P. Hughes James P. Hughes Amy Willis Amy Willis

  • The laws of probability and the binomial, multinomial, and normal distributions.

  • Descriptive statistics and methods of inference including maximum likelihood, confidence intervals and simple Bayes methods.

  • Classical hypothesis testing topics, including type I and II errors, two-sample tests, chi-square tests and contingency table analysis, and exact and permutation tests

  • Resampling methods such as the bootstrap and jackknife are covered as well.

Also offered as part of the Summer Institute in Statistics and Modeling in Infectious Diseases (SISMID 2017).