Lecture: MWF 9-10 am, 6 Evans Hall
Problem session: Mon 3-4:30pm, 1011 Evans Hall
Instructor: Deborah Nolan
Office Hours: Wed 10:30-12
395 Evans
Teaching Assistant: Jonathan Grib
Office Hours: Thu 2-4pm
305 Evans
Grading policy: 50% HW and 50% Final
There will be weekly homework assignments due Friday in class.
The final exam will be a take home exam.
Required Text: Bickel and Doksum,
Mathematical Statistics vol I, second edition.
Additional reading:
Pollard, Asymptopia,
Chapter 2. Available at
www.stat.yale.edu/~pollard/Asymptopia/Classical.pdf
Chapter 1 in
The EM algorithm and extensions,
by G. J. McLachlan and T. Krishnan.
| Week | Read | Problem Sets | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chap 1, Sec 1&2 | 1.1 #3, 4, 7, 8, 11, 14, 15 1.2 #3, 11, 12, 14 | Sep 6 |
| 2 | Chap 1, Sec 3 | 1.3 #3a, 8, 9, 10, 18, 19 | Sep 13 |
| 3 | Chap 1, Sec 4&5 | 1.4 #4, 6, 12, 14 1.5 #3, 7, 11 | Sep 20 |
| 4 | Chap 1, Sec 6 | 1.6 #4, 10, 17, 36, 39 | Sep 27 |
| 5 | Chap 2, Sec 1,2 | 2.1 #8, 10 2.2 #3, 6, 12, 19 | Oct 4 |
| 6 | Chap 2, Sec 3 | 2.2 #21, 33, 37 2.3 #1, 7, 13 | Oct 11 |
| 7 | Chap 2, Sec 4 | 2.4 #11, 17 and two problems on handout | Oct 18 |
| 8 | Chap 3, Sec 1-3 | 3.2 #2, 4, 3.3 #4, 6, 8 | Oct 25 |
| 9 | Chap 3, Sec 4-5 | 3.4 #2, 5, 11 3.5 #6, 14 | Nov 1 |
| 10 | Chap 4, Sec 1-3 | 4.1 #6, 12 4.2 #4, 4.3 #6, 9, 10 | Nov 8 |
| 11 | Chap 4, Sec 4-9 | 4.5 #5, 4.8 #1(a), 4.9 #1, 9 | Nov 15 |
| 12 | Chapter 2 of Asymptpia | Notest + Handout | Nov 22 |
| 13 | Notes | No Homework | |
| 14 | Hjort & Pollard article | 5.3 #8, 9, 27, 32, 33 | Dec 2 |
| 15 | Final | Dec 10 |