In the course we treat the following topics.
Sample spaces, probability measures, distribution functions, random variables with discrete and continuous distributions, functions of random variables, multivariate distributions, random vectors, independent random variables, conditional distributions, functions of random vectors and their distributions, expectation and variance, covariance and correlation, the law of large numbers, central limit theorem, chi-square and t-distributions, estimation, method of moments, maximum likelihood, large sample theory, confidence intervals, Cramer-Rao bound, hypothesis testing, Neyman-Pearson paradigm, likelihood ratio tests, confidence intervals, linear regression, least squares estimation of regression parameters, testing regression hypotheses.
2nd EDITION | 3rd EDITION |
pages 202-203 | pages 216-218 |
section 8.6 | section 8.7 |
sections 9.1-9.3 | sections 9.1-9.2 |
section 9.4 | section 9.3 |
section 9.5 | section 9.4 |
FROM WEEK TO WEEK | |
1 | Rice, chapter 2
Exercises: chapter 2: 3, 5, 13*, 21, 23, 27*, 33, 41, 44*, 53, 55*, 59* |
2 | Rice, sections 3.1-3.4, 3.6 (not all details, skip parts
that require more than basic knowledge about multiple integrals)
Exercises: chapter 3: 1, 3, 7, 14(a)*, 17(a,b), 32(a), 34* (treated during class), 37*, 38, 55*, 57 Homework: chapter 3: 8(a,b), 19 (due date November 19) |
3 | Rice, sections 4.1-4.3
Exercises: chapter 4: 2, 4, 6, 12, 31, 34*, 45*, 46*, 53*, 71(a) Homework: chapter 4: 32, 45 (due November 19) |
4 | Rice, chapter 5 (skip the considerations involving moment generating functions),
sections 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, extra on multivariate normal distributions (see slides)
Exercises: chapter 5: 1*, 3*, 9, 12*, 13, 15, 17*, 23, 26 Homework: chapter 5: 16, chapter 6: 9 (due December 3) |
5 | Rice, sections 8.3-8.5.2, 8.6
Exercises: chapter 8: 4*, 5*, 8, 17*, 19ab*, 39abc*, 42, 44abc, 49 Homework: chapter 8: 14abc, 19ab (due December 3) |
6 | Rice, sections 8.5.3 (you also read pages 202, 203), 9.1-9.3
Exercises: chapter 8: 52*, chapter 9: 1, 2, 3*, 5, 7*, 9, 12*, 15, 18, 21, 22, read section 9.4 and pay special attention to the second half of page 302 (on p-value) as well Homework: chapter 9: 11, 16 (due December 17) |
7 | Rice, sections 9.4, 9.5 (very briefly), sections 14.1-14.4
Exercises: chapter 9: 15*, chapter 14: 1, 3*, 4, 8*, 9, 11, 20, (24), 25*, 31 Homework: chapter 14: 5, 16 (due December 17) |