Date Posted: 03/09/2026
Req ID: 47258
Faculty/Division: UofT Mississauga
Department: UTM: Math/Comp. Sciences
Campus: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM)
Existing Vacancy: Yes

Description:

Course Number and Title: STA260H5F, LEC101 Probability and Statistics II 

Course Description: A sequel to STA256H5 introducing current statistical theory and methodology. Topics include: Sampling distributions, point estimation, confidence intervals, testing (Neyman-Pearson Theorem, uniformly most powerful test, likelihood ratio tests), unbiasedness, consistency, sufficiency, complete statistics, and exponential family; Fisher Information and the Cramer-Rao inequality; simple linear models.

Course Enrolment (Estimated): 120

Number of Positions:  1

TA Support: 50 hrs per tutorial & per semester

Sessional Dates of Appointment...