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We've started the course! Emil gave a general introduction on Tue Jan 21, and pointed to themes of the main curriculum-to-be: decently big chunks of Chs 2, 5, 9, somewhat smaller chunks of Chs 6, 7, and a dozen or so Statistical Stories. Emil captains the first weeks, then Nils does half of Ch 5, etc. 

Exercises, for Thu Jan 23 and next week: (a) so much as you can of Exercises 2.1 - 2.7; (b) skim through the pages of Ch1, to check that you know the basics (if not all details). 

Note: the preliminary versions PartOne and PartTwo will be shortened, after more polishing & processing. Also: all comments on the book-to-be are welcomed. And Emil promised you could all email him even in the middle of the night. 

Emil & Nils 

We've placed PartOne (lots of exercises) and PartTwo (lots of Statistical Stories) on the site; take copies for your own computers (as the files may be taken away from the course site later). These are from a preliminary January 2025 version of the book-to-be, "Statistical Inference: 777 Exercises, 77 Stories, and Solutions", by NL Hjort and EAa Stoltenberg. 

The course material will essentially be: big chunks of Chs 2, 5, 9, plus the Appendix; smaller chunks of Chs 6, 7; and a dozen or so of the Statistical Stories. You are also expected to know the core material covered in Chs 1, 3, 4, rom STK 4011/9011 or related courses elsewhere, covering statistical models, parameters, confidence, testing.

A more detailed list for the curriculum will come later.

Nils and Emil

The Statistical Large-Sample Theory course stk 4090 (with stk 9090 for the PhD subset) will be given by Nils Lid Hjort and Emil Stoltenberg, with teaching taking place Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:15 to 12:00. We start Tuesday January 21.

The course material will be based on preliminary versions of chapters from the forthcoming book "Statistical Inference: 777 Exercises, 77 Stories, and Solutions to All", by Hjort and Stoltenberg (Cambridge University Press, 2025); a pdf will be given to the course participants in early January. Specifically, the chapters involved are 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, and a proper subset of the Statistical Stories will also be included.

You may skim through the 95 pages of course notes, by Hjort, on the course site for 2020.