Stats def from book Flashcards

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Define central limit theorem

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State Law of total Probabilty

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What is the ‘power’ of a statistical test

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Define Sample mean

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State details for testing a proportion against a given value

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State axioms of probabilitiy

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Define expectation and Var of Uniform Random Variable

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Define MSE and define and derive formula relating to var and bias

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What is an unbias estimator and what is the bias of an estimator

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When is something positively skewed/negatively skewed

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Defn of Discrete Random Variable

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State and prove result for the expectation of a sum of random variables with joint probability

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define type I error and type II error

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What is an estimator

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Define uniform distribution and its pdf

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Define F distribution

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Expectation and Variance of (negative) exponential dist.

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State details testing mean against given value, variance unknown

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State details for testing mean against a given value, variance known

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Define moment generating function

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State result for conditional expectation

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Define how we find the mode of a continious random variable and a discrete random variable

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Describe the jist behind a geometric distribution

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Defn of Gamma function

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Eqn of median of a function in terms of cumlitive distribution
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Define Coefficiant of variance
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State Expectation and Var of Negative Binomial Distribution
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State the strong law of large numbers
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Conditions for function f(x) to be a pmf (continous case)
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state expectation and variance of hypergeometric distribution
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Define joint probability mass function
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Define beta distribution and its pdf (include beta function)
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State and prove iterated expeectation law
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State Expectation, Variance and derive PGF of Geometric distribution
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Define rth moment about alpha
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Define Chi squared distribution
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What is expectation and variance of sample mean of IID
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Defn of mutually independent events
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What is sampling distribution and what is standing error
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Define Expectation of continous random variable
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State details of Geometric distribution and its pmf
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defn of pooled estimator
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Define normal distribution and its pdf
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Define a random Variable
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Define joint distribution function
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Define confidence interval for \mu with signicance level \alpha
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Define PGF
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Whats expecation and variance of normal dist
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State details of negative binomial distribution
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State details testing equality of means, variance known
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Describe jist of hypergeometric
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Define conditional probability distribution and its pdf
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What distribution is the chi squared distribution the same as, and what is its mean and variance
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State details testing equality of of two variances
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Defn of (Negative) Expotential Dist. and its pmf
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State Properties of Cumlative Distribution Function
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define sample variance
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State and prove result for the variance of the sum of independent random variables
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Define beta function
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Defn of independence of variables for joint probability functions
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(operational) state defn of independence of continious random variables
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State details of Hypergeometric distribution and its pmf
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State result about the mgf of independent random variables
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state details for testing dependent means
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Define t- distribution
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Gamma dist and its pdf
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Define a continous random variable
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State result which suppose X has a distribution and Y =g(X), to find the pdf of Y.
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state pdf for multinominal dist
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state conditional density of X\_1 given X\_2
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Give two eqns for Var(X)
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What is Expectation and variance of beta distribution
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State MGF of normal distribution and describe how you would derive it.
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State details for testing two proportions are equal
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Summary table of 'time till accident' type which distribution for discrete and continious
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Describe jist of negative binomial dist.
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Define consistent
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what is pgf of sum of independent random variables
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State details testing variance against a given value
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State and prove iterated expectation law
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State Bayes Theorem
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Define null hypothisis and alternative hypothisis
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Expectation and Var of gamma distribution
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State result about the expectation of independant random variables of X\_1, X\_2. E(X\_1 \* X\_2)
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State details testing equality of two means, variance unknown but equal
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State defn of independence which holds for both discrete and continious cases
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Describe jist of poisson distribution
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Expectation of a function defn
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Define Expectation of a discrete variable
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What is Observed Sig level (p -value
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State and Prove Generalised Multiplication Law
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State details testing equality of two means, variance unknown and unequal
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Define poisson dist. and its pmf
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Cumilative distribution for a Uniform Distribution
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