MATH 556: Mathematical Statistics I
Fall 2007
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Lecture Topics
| Week (Beginning) | Tuesday | Thursday |
| 1 (3rd September) | Introduction | Probability Introduction |
| 2 (10th September) | Random Variables | Discrete and Continuous Distributions |
| 3 (17th September) | Continuous distributions | Joint Distributions |
| 4 (24th September) | Joint Distributions and Independence | Examples Class: Assignment 1 |
| 5 (1st October) | Transformations | Non-1-1 Transformations/Expectations |
| 6 (8th October) | Thanksgiving - no lecture | Generating Functions |
| 7 (15th October) | Characteristic Functions | Characteristic Functions |
| 8 (22nd October) | Multivariate Expectations | MID TERM |
| 9 (29th October) | Location-Scale Distributions/Exponential Family | Exponential Family/Hierarchical Models |
| 10 (5th November) | Exponential Family/Hierarchical Models | Inequalities |
| 11 (12th November) | Inequalities and The KL Divergence | Sampling Distributions |
| 12 (19th November) | Sampling from a Normal Family | Order Statistics |
| 13 (26th November) | Stochastic Convergence | Asymptotic Appoximations/The Delta Method |
| 14 (4rd December) | Review Lecture | Final Examination (14th December 2pm) |
| Contact
Details: Professor David A. Stephens Room 1235, Burnside Hall Department of Mathematics and Statistics McGill University Phone: 514-398-2005 Fax: 514-398-3899 E-mail : David Stephens |
