STAT6332 - Statistical Inference II

STAT 6332 Statistical Inference II (3 semester hours) Elementary and advanced asymptotic methods, treating sample quantiles, U-statistics, differentiable statistical functions, and incluence curves, the MLE, L-statistics, M-statistics, and the bootstrap. Advanced aspects of statistical inference, likelihood-based inference, robust statistics. General forms of Neyman-Pearson Lemma. Metrics on spaces of probability distributions. Prerequisites: STAT 6331. Pre-/Co-Requisite: STAT 6344. (3-0) T