| Instructor: | Sean O'Rourke |
| Office: | Math 325 |
| Office Hours: | W: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm, F: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm, and by appointment. |
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| Lectures: | MWF: 03:00 pm - 03:50 pm in ECCR 155 |
| Webpage: | http://math.colorado.edu/~seor3821/teaching/4520.19s/ |
We will be using John E. Freund's Mathematical Statistics with Applications (8th Edition) by Miller and Miller.
Mathematical statistics is a theoretical and mathematically rigorous approach to understanding the probability needed to do statistics. While this course is an introduction to the subject, it assumes that you already understand the basics of probability.
This semester we will examine point and confidence interval estimation, method of moments, method of maximum likelihood, sufficiency, completeness, and uniformly minimum variance unbiased estimation. In addition, we will study tests for simple and composite hypotheses, including uniformly most powerful tests and likelihood ratio tests. This is more or less the second half of the text.
Your grade in this course will be based on the following:
Every week you will have a written homework assignment, which will give you an opportunity to use the concepts, definitions, theorems and techniques we have learned. These will be posted on the course website. Late homework will not be accepted without proper documentation (such as a doctor's note) or prior approval of the instructor.
Homework should be legible, have your name on it, and be stapled in order to ensure that you get credit. A goal of this course is for you to improve your ability to write clear, precise mathematical arguments; the homework (and the exams) will be graded accordingly.
I encourage you to discuss the homework problems with your classmates, tutors, or me (or any other resources you find helpful). However, the Honor Code requires that the solution you turn in must be in your own words and reflect your own understanding.
Each week you will be assigned reading assignments from the text. You will then complete some online questions (known as warm-ups) based on the reading. Each warm-up assignment is based on 2-4 conceptual questions. These questions serve as preparation for the following lecture and are due one hour before the next class meeting.
If you are registered for the graduate level of this course (STAT or MATH 5520), you will have extra homework problems on each assignment, additional take home parts for both midterms, and will generally be held to higher standards for grading.
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