INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS
College of Science
University of the Philippines Diliman
Math 150.1 Course Syllabus
A. Course Catalogue Description
Course Number Math 150.1
Course Title Mathematical Statistics I
Course Description Combinatorial probability; probability distributions; joint and conditional
distributions; random variables; distributions of functions of random vari-
ables; mathematical expectation; moment-generating functions; sampling
distributions
Prerequisite Math 23/equiv. and Stat 101/equiv.
Course Credit 3 units
Number of Hours 3 hours/week
B. Course Content
I. Course Introduction and Orientation
II. Probability Space
1. Outcome space, sigma field and probability measure
2. Conditional probability and its properties
3. Independent Events and Bayes’ Rule
III. Random Variables and Distribution Functions
1. Random variables (continuous and discrete)
2. Distribution Functions
a. Cumulative distribution function
b. Probability density/mass functions
c. Moment generating functions
3. Mathematical Expectation
4. Raw and central moments, mean and variance
5. Chebyshev’s Inequality
IV. Discrete Distributions
1. Uniform (Empirical) distribution
2. Bernoulli and Binomial distributions
3. Hypergeometric distribution
4. Poisson distribution
5. Geometric and Negative Binomial distributions
V. Continuous Distributions
1. Uniform (Rectangular) distribution
2. Normal distribution
3. Exponential distribution
4. Other distributions
a. Gamma distribution
b. Beta distribution
c. Lognormal distribution
VI. Multivariate Distributions
1. Joint distributions
2. Marginal distributions
3. Marginal expectations
4. Covariance and correlation
5. Conditional expectations
6. Bivariate Normal distribution
VII. Sampling Distribution
1. Sampling, sample mean and sample variance
2. Law of Large Numbers
3. Central Limit Theorem
For a more detailed syllabus, send an email request to ddapr@math.upd.edu.ph.