Course unit, curriculum year 2024–2025
DATA.STAT.440
Statistical Inference, 5 cr
Tampere University
- Description
- Completion options
Teaching periods
Active in period 1 (1.8.2024–20.10.2024)
Active in period 3 (1.1.2025–2.3.2025)
Active in period 4 (3.3.2025–31.5.2025)
Course code
DATA.STAT.440Language of instruction
EnglishAcademic years
2024–2025, 2025–2026, 2026–2027Level of study
Intermediate studiesGrading scale
General scale, 0-5Persons responsible
Responsible teacher:
Hyon-Jung Kim-OllilaResponsible teacher:
Jaakko PeltonenResponsible organisation
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences 100 %
Coordinating organisation
Computing Sciences Studies 100 %
Sampling distributions of statistics, Law of large numbers, Central limit theorems, sufficiency, basics of likelihood inference, point estimation, mean square errors, Fisher information, Cramer-Rao lower bound, method of moments, maximum likelihood estimators, confidence interval estimation, hypothesis testing- likelihood ratio tests and most powerful tests.
Learning outcomes
Recommended prerequisites
Learning material
Studies that include this course
Completion option 1
Completion of all options is required.
Participation in teaching
08.01.2025 – 27.02.2025
Active in period 3 (1.1.2025–2.3.2025)