STA 732: Statistical Inference

Personnel and meeting times

  • Peter Hoff (Lecturer)
    • Lecture : Tue, Thu 10:05-11:20, Old Chemistry 025
    • Office hours: Mon, Wed 9:00-10:00 and by appointment, Old Chem 219
  • Vivek Singh (TA)
    • Office hours: Mon 3:00-4:00, Thu 4:30-5:30 Old Chem 025

Assignments

2025-04-03: Homework 10 is assigned, due in one week. This is the final homework

2025-03-27: Homework 9 is assigned, due in one week.

2025-03-20: Homework 8 is assigned, due in one week.

2025-03-04: Homework 7 is assigned, due in two weeks after spring break.

2025-02-25: Homework 6 is assigned, due in one week.

2025-02-11: Homework 5 is assigned, due in one week.

2025-02-04: Homework 4 is assigned, due in one week.

2025-01-28: Homework 3 is assigned, due in one week.

2025-01-21: Homework 2 is assigned, due in one week. Read the old notes on exponential familes or review this material in the book. Continue reading the course notes and LC 5.7.

2025-01-14: Homework 1 is assigned, due in one week. Continue reading LC 1.1, 1.7 and 5.7.

2025-01-09: Skim the review material in LC 1.2,1.3, 1.5 and 1.6 as necessary. Read LC 1.1, 1.7 and 5.7. Try some of the supplementary exercises, in particular, 1.9, 1.10, 1.12, and 2.5.

Course outline

  1. Global properties of procedures:
    1. Risk, admissibility and complete class theorems;
    2. Bayes and minimax procedures;
    3. Compound risk, shrinkage and empirical Bayes.
  2. Classes of procedures:
    1. Invariance;
    2. Unbiasedness;
    3. Asymptotic efficiency.
  3. Tests and interval procedures.

References

  • Lehmann and Casella [1998] Theory of Point Estimation.
  • Lehmann and Romano [2005] Testing Statistical Hypotheses
  • Keener [2010] Theoretical Statistics: Topics for a Core Course

Evaluation

  • 33% Homework:
    • 10% per-late day penalty including weekends;
    • maximum of three one-day extensions per student.
  • 34% Quizzes
    1. Thu 2/20 in lecture.
    2. Tue 4/15 in lecture.
  • 33% Final 4/30 9:00-12:00 Old Chem 025