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Comment author: RobinZ 10 June 2010 01:51:21AM 0 points [-]

Georgetown University Library isn't impossible, although I'd want help with the directions (particularly on locating the right building and right room in the building). My statistics background is the usual one-semester college course*, but I've got the full engineering-student education in calculus (I went as far as the partial differential equations course) and a smattering of linear algebra in the course of studying graduate dynamics and finite element methods. I usually pick it up fairly easily.

* The catalog entry for STAT400 in the year I took it states

Random variables, standard distributions, moments, law of large numbers and central limit theorem. Sampling methods, estimation of parameters, testing of hypotheses.