All assignments are due at 11:59 PM Duke time unless otherwise noted. This schedule may be updated as the semester progresses with all changes documented here (E-mail announcements will be made prior to any potential changes).
| Week | Date | Activity | Link | Due | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Tue, Jan 17 | Lecture | The OLS Estimator (1) | ||
| 02 | Tue, Jan 24 | Lecture | The OLS Estimator (2) | Homework 1 (sols) | |
| 03 | Tue, Jan 31 | Lecture | The OLS Estimator (3) | Homework 2 (sols) | |
| 04 | Tue, Feb 07 | Lecture | Probability Distributions | Homework 3 (sols) | |
| 05 | Tue, Feb 14 | Lecture | The OLS Estimator (4) | Homework 4 (sols) | |
| 06 | Tue, Feb 21 | Lecture | Properties of Estimators (1) | Homework 5 (sols) | |
| 07 | Tue, Feb 28 | Lecture | Properties of Estimators (2) | Homework 6 (sols) | |
| 08 | Tue, Mar 07 | Lecture | The Gauss-Markov Theorem | Homework 7 (sols) | |
| 09 | Spring Recess | ||||
| 10 | Tue, Mar 21 | Lecture | Maximum Likelihood Estimation | ||
| 11 | Tue, Mar 28 | Lecture | The Exponential Family | Homework 8 (sols) | |
| 12 | Tue, Apr 04 | Lecture | Generalized Linear Models (1) | Homework 9 (sols) | |
| 13 | Tue, Apr 11 | Lecture | Generalized Linear Models (2) | Homework 10 (sols) | |
| 14 | Tue, Apr 18 | Lecture | Generalized Linear Models (3) | Homework 11 (sols) | |
| 15 | Tue, Apr 25 | Lecture | Semester Review | Homework 12 (sols) | |
| 16 | Wed, May 03 | Final, 2 - 5 PM | Final (sols) |
Header: The image in the header of this site is from a first edition printing of Carl Friedrich Gauss' work Theoria combinationis observationum erroribus minimis obnoxiae. In particular, it displays one of the concluding sections of the first half of the work, in which Gauss establishes the conditions under which the ordinary least squares estimator achieves the minimum variance among all possible linear unbiased estimators. This is the Gauss-Markov theorem, which, coincidentally, we will derive and study as the conclusion to the first half of our semester.