Statistics 610: Introduction to Statistical Inference, Spring 2007.

• Required

  Larry Wasserman All of statistics , Springer, 2004. ISBN 0-387-40272-1

• Recommended

  Peter Bickel and Kjell Docksum. Mathematical Statistics: Basic Ideas and Selected Topics, Vol. 1. 2nd edition. Prentice Hall, 2001. [I'm fine with either the 2001 edition, or with the newer, 2007, `updated printing' by Pearson Prentice, ISBN 0-13-230637-9(v.1)]

• Computing info

  Venables, Smith, et al. An introduction to R, 2003. pdf

Homework

• Homework 1, due Thursday 2/1/07
• Homework 2, due Thursday 2/22/07
• Homework 3, due Thursday 3/1/07
• Homework 4, due Thursday 3/22/07
• Homework 5, due Thursday 3/29/07
• Homework 6, due Thursday 4/26/07

Some R code used in class

• Feb 15/07: study comparing coverage probability for confidence intervals of a correlation
• May 8/07: on a two-sample, unpaired permutation test

Quizes: Dates TBA

• Q1. Thursday February 8. pdf
• Q2. Tuesday March 13 pdf
• Q3. Thursday April 12 pdf
• Q4. May 1 pdf
• Q5. Take home returned by exam period (May 13, 7:45 am)

Evaluation: homework 30% and 5 quizes at 14% each

Description from timetable
Conditioning, distribution theory, approximation to distributions, modes of convergence, limit theorems, statistical models, parameter estimation, comparision of estimators, confidence sets, theory of hypothesis tests, introduction to Bayesian inference and nonparametric estimation. Prereq Stat 309 or Stat 431, Math 521, Math 340 or equiv or cons inst

Last modified: 4/2007 by Michael Newton