Preface

About the author

Hello! My name is Korbinian Strimmer and I am a Professor in Statistics. I am a member of the Statistics group at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Manchester. You can find more information about me on my home page.

About the notes

These supplementary notes aim to provide a quick refresher of some essentials in combinatorics and probability as well as to offer an overview over selected univariate and multivariate distributions.

The notes are supporting information for a number of lecture notes of statistical courses I am or have been teaching at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Manchester.

This includes the currently offered modules:

• MATH27720 Statistics 2: Likelihood and Bayes and
• MATH38161 Multivariate Statistics

as well as the retired module (not offered any more):

• MATH20802 Statistical Methods.