The course content addresses the following topics:
- Descriptive statistics
- Inference from Normal distributions
- Estimation of mean and standard deviation
- Confidence levels on parameters
- Hypothesis testing
- Student's t and f - ratio tests correlation and regression methods
- Tests of significance
- Multivariate regression and trend surface analysis
- Inference from lognormal distributions
- Estimation of mean and confidence levels
- Grade/tonnage curves and the Volume Variance Effect