Stat 426 Winter 2002

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.

The Probability Background

Important distributions in Statistics.

Basic Large Sample Theory.

Lower Bounds For Estimation.

Efficient Likelihood Estimation and Related Tests.

Bayes Methods and Decision Theory.

Hypothesis Testing.

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

Examples -- 1

Homework 1

Homework 2

Problem Set 7

Problem Set 8

Problem Set 9

Exam Solutions

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