Spring, 2021, STAT453/STAT553

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Syllabus

HW1 due Jan 28th, each subproblem worth 2 points each    Solutions

Notes from Tuesday, Jan 19, Section 5.1 of book

Notes from Thursday, Jan 21, Section 5.2 of book

Notes from Tuesday, Jan 26, Section 5.2 of book plus Theorem 3.4.2

HW2, due Thur., Feb 11

Notes from Thursday, Jan 28, Section 5.3

Notes from Tuesday, Feb 2, Section 5.4

Notes from Thursday (missing first two pages), Feb 4, Section 5.4

Notes from Tuesday, Feb 9, Section 5.5

R code to illustrate the delta method approximation to mean and variance of odds for a binomial random variable

Notes from Thursday, Feb 11, Sections 5.5-6.1

Notes from Tuesday, Feb 16, Section 6.1

Notes from Thursday, Feb 18, section 6.2-6.3

Practice Test for Test 1. Test 1 is Thursday, Feb 25th, at 12:30 and will be open book.

Solutions to practice test

Notes from Tuesday, Mar 2nd, section 7.1

Notes from Thursday, Mar 4th, section 7.2

Notes from Tuesday, Mar 9th, section 7.2

Notes from Thursday, Mar 11th, section 7.2 plus R examples

HW3, due March 25th

Notes for week 9, 3/23 and 3/25, ch7.2-3

Notes from Tuesday, March 30th, Cramer-Rao Lower Bound

Notes from Thursday, April 1st, CR Lower Bound examples

Notes from Tuesday, April 6th, Rao-Blackwell

Notes from Thursday, April 8th, Rao-Blackwell

HW4 (optional), worth some extra credit, due April 20th

Notes from Tuesday, April 13th, Hypothesis testing

Notes from Thursday, April 15th, ch 8.2-8.3

Practice Test 2

HW3 Solutions to Theory questions (no simulations)

Solutions to practice test 2, Tuesday, 4/20

Notes from Tuesday, April 27, Neyman-Pearson Lemma

Notes from Tuesday, Apirl 29, end of Chapter 8

Practice problems from Chapter 8

Tuesday, May 4th, Ch 9

Thursday, May 6th, Pivotal Quantities

Practice Final

Solutions to optional Chapter 8 problems

Solutions to Practice Final