MA 612 Mathematical Statistics
Point estimation, method of moments, maximum likelihood, and properties of point estimators; confidence intervals and hypothesis testing; sufficiency; Neyman-Pearson theorem, uniformly most powerful tests, and likelihood ratio tests; and Fisher information and the Cramer-Rao inequality. Additional topics may include nonparametric statistics, decision theory, and linear models.
Prerequisite
MA 611
Distribution
Pure and Applied Mathematics Program