STAT 512: Introduction to Statistical Inference (2022 Autumn)

Lecture Notes

Lecture 01: Probability
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Lecture 02: Transforming continuous random variables
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Lecture 03: Expectation and basic asymptotic theories
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Lecture 04: Conditional expectation and conditional distribution
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Lecture 05: Correlation, prediction, and regression
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Lecture 06: Estimators
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Lecture 07: Multinomial distribution
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Lecture 08: Linear models and multivariate normal distributions
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Lecture 09: Order statistics
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Lecture 10: Statistical functionals and the bootstrap
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