PART ONE:  OBSERVATIONS

• Introduction
• Local Galaxies
• Local Star-forming Galaxies
• Local Quiescent Galaxies
• Local Galactic Environment
• Distant Galaxies

 PART ONE

Probability

Theory

• Probability and probability distributions
• Multivariate and conditional distributions
• Binomial, negative binomial and geometric distributions
• Gamma, exponential and chi-squared distributions
• Power-law (Pareto) distributions
• Gaussian (uni- and multi-variate) distributions
• t- and F-distributions, Student's theorem
• Stochastic convergence, central limit theorem

PART TWO

Statistical

Inference

• Samples, statistics and estimators
• Point estimation and Fisher information
• Interval estimation
• Resampling techniques
• Hypothesis testing
• Information, entropy and priors
• Kolmogorov-Smirnov nonparametric testing
• Regression and correlation
• Sufficiency and completeness