STA 215: Statistical Inference

Course Schedule

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Some weeks will have lecture notes available; more will be added over time. Here's the course's information page and a sheet of information and notation for common probability distributions.

Note: The class text by Bickel and Doksum is a new edition that is substantially different (and better) than its predecessor--- it is also organized differently (the old Chapter 1 has become the new Appendix B, with remaining chapters renumbered accordingly).

Week
Date
Topic
Reading
Assignment
Lec
Notes
HW
Due
Date
1
 1/11 Introduction: Likelihood, 3½ Paradigms Lec Notes »»
ps,ps
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2
1/18 Random Samples, Generating Functions Lec Notes »»
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3
 1/23 - 1/25 Models, Sufficiency, Exponential Families B&D Ch 1
ps
 HW 1
2/08
4
1/30 - 2/01 Point Estimation: Bias, Risk, Consistency B&D Ch 2
ps
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5
2/06 - 2/08 Efficiency & the Frêchet (Cramér-Rao)
Information Inequality, Rao-Blackwell
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ps
 HW 2
2/22
6
2/13 - 2/15 Normal Approximations, Bayes & Frequentist B&D Ch 3
ps,ps
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7
2/20 - 2/22 Conjugate, Jeffreys, and Reference Priors AOH Ch 5
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 HW 3
3/06
8
2/27 - 3/01 Survival Analysis: Stanford Heart Transplants Lec Notes »»
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9
3/06 - 3/08 Take-home Midterm Exam (2000)
Results
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2:15pm
3/08
10
3/10 - 3/18 Spring Break
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11
3/20 - 3/22 Testing Hyp: Size, P-Values, Power, Post Prob B&D Ch 4
ps
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12
3/27 - 3/29 Likelihood Ratios & the Neyman-Pearson Lemma B&D Ch 4
ps
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13
4/03 - 4/05 Conditionality & the Likelihood Principle Berg & Wolp
ps
 HW 4
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14
4/10 - 4/12 Discrete Data, 2x2 Contingency Tables, Meta-analysis
B&D Sec 6.4
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15
4/17 - 4/19 Bayes vs. Freq: DeGr, Berg&Selk, Cass&Berg, Berg&Dela ««Hand-outs
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16
4/21 - 4/29 Graduate Reading Period
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17
5/03 Final Exam, Thu May 3, 2:00-5:00pm
Results
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