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 provide a quick refresher on some essential combinatorics and probability concepts, and present an overview of selected univariate and multivariate distributions, along with an introduction to exponential families.

The notes are supporting information for a number of lecture courses in statistics that I teach or have taught 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.