Prerequisite: STAT 544 / 554
Course Description:Fundamental principles of estimation and hypothesis testing. Topics include limiting distributions and stochastic convergence, sufficient statistics, exponential families, statistical decision theory and optimality for point estimation, Bayesian methods, maximum likelihood, asymptotic results, interval estimation, optimal tests of statistical hypotheses, and likelihood ratio tests. s
Spring 09 Office Hours: :
Tuesday (6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.)
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