STATISTICS 611:
INSTRUCTOR OFFICE HOURS: Mon, Tue & Wed, 5:30 to 6:30, 445B, West Hall. Class meets Mon, Wed and Fri from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m., B760, East Hall.
GSI AND GRADER INFO: Zhiguang Qian (qianz@umich.edu). Office hours: Wed, 11:30 -- 1:00, 441 West Hall.
EXAM SCHEDULE: Midterm 1: Feb 21 (Fri) in class. Midterm 2: Mar 28 (Friday) in class.
Important distributions in Statistics.
Efficient Likelihood Estimation and Related Tests.
Bayes Methods and Decision Theory.
Statistical Functionals and the Delta Method.
The Bootstrap and the Jackknife.
Sufficiency and Unbiased estimation.
Invariance of information bounds and influence functions under reparametrization
Notes on contiguity theory -- 1
Notes on contiguity theory -- 2
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