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Weekly postings:
| Posted on/by | Reading | Homeworks | Due date | Basic problems |
| 9/6 | Handout "Estimation and types of convergence" (till the statement of Delta method) Some content can be found in Chapter 5 in the text. | Do some (parts) of Problems 1-2 up to 10 pts (extra points will not be counted) | 9/19 | Problem 2 |
| 9/13 | Handouts "Confidence intervals" (till Example 1) and "Estimation and types of convergence" | Do some (parts) of Problems 3-7 up to 10 pts (extra points will not be counted) | 9/26 | Problems 3, 5, 6 |
| 9/20 | Handouts "Maximum likelihood estimation" and "Method of moments estimators". The definition of MLE can also be found in Definition 6.1.1 in the text. | Do some (parts) of Problems 8-11 up to 10 pts (extra points will not be counted) | 10/3 | Problems 8(a)(b), 9-11 |
| 9/27 | Handout "Evaluation of estimation accuracy" (till Example 1) The definition of the unbiasedness of an estimator can be found in Definition 4.1.3 in the text. | Do some (parts) of Problems 12-13 up to 10 pts (extra points will not be counted) | 10/13 | Problem 13(a)(b)(c) |
| 10/4, 10/18 | Handouts "Numerical optimization using R" and "Sufficient statistics and factorization theorem". | Do some (parts) of Problems 14-16 up to 10 pts (extra points will not be counted) | 11/7 | Problems 14, 15 |
| 11/1 | Handout "Minimum variance unbiased estimators" (till Fact 4) Textbook reading: Section 7.4, Theorem 7.9.1 | Do some (parts) of Problems 17-19 up to 10 pts (extra points will not be counted) | 11/14 | Problems 17-19 |
| 11/8 | Handouts "Minimum variance unbiased estimators" and "Minimum sufficient statistics and order statistics" (till the definition of order statistics) | Do some (parts) of Problems 20-22 up to 10 pts (extra points will not be counted) | 11/21 | Problems 20-22 |
| 11/15 | Handout "Minimum sufficient statistics and order statistics" | Do some (parts) of Problems 23-26 up to 10 pts (extra points will not be counted) | 11/28 | Problems 24-26 |
| 11/22 | Handout "Hypothesis Testing" (till Example 4(a)) | Do some (parts) of Problems 27-32 up to 10 pts (extra points will not be counted) | 12/5 | Problems 27-28, 30-31 |
| 11/29 | Handout "Hypothesis Testing" and Fact 1 in the handout "Open sets in Rn" | Do some (parts) of Problems 33-35 up to 10 pts (extra points will not be counted) | 12/12 | Problems 33-35 |