Syllabus/achievement requirements

Content

  • Continuous distributions: multiple integration, conditional distributions, transformations
  • Bayesian analysis: prior- and posterior distributions
  • Asymptotic theory: plim, Slutsky's lemma
  • Likelihood methods: maximum likelihood estimation, likelihood ratio testing, sufficiency, optimality
  • Generalized linear models: logistic and Poisson regression
  • Simulation-based inference: parametric and non-parametric bootstrapping
  • Statistical programming (a little bit)

Literature

John Rice, Mathematical statistics and data analysis, Duxburry Press 1995, 2nd edition ISBN 0-534-20934-3

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