STAT 583: Advanced Theory of Statistical Inference

Spring Quarter 1998

Syllabus (last updated: 3/30/98)

Course personnel:

• Professor: Jon A. Wellner
• B320 Padelford Hall
• Phone: 543-6207
• Office hours: 2:30 - 4:30 MWF; or by appointment

Administrative Information:

• Time(s): MWF 10:30 - 11:20
  F 11:30 - 12:20 (extra/optional)
• Place: More 116 (extra session: MEB 248)

Prerequisites:

• Successful completion of STAT 582.
• Mathematical Analysis at the level of Math 424-5-6.

Required Texts:

• Bradley Efron and R. J. Tibshirani, An Introduction to the Bootstrap, Chapman and Hall, 1993.

Supplemental texts:

• Peter J. Huber, Robust Statistics, Wiley, 1981.
• N. J. Higham, Handbook of Writing for the Mathematical Sciences. SIAM, 1993.

Grading:

• Homework: 33%
• Final: 33%
  (Scheduled time & date: 8:30 - 10:20, Monday, June 8).
• Class Project: 34%

Lectures:

• Chapter 6. Testing
• Chapter 7. Statistical Functionals and the Delta Method
• Chapter 8. Bootstrap and Jackknife Estimation of Sampling Distributions
• Chapter 13. Sufficiency and Unbiased Estimation

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