Type of Credit: Required
Credit(s)
Number of Students
This course provides students with the principles of probability theory and the theory of statistical inference, such as estimation methods, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing procedures.
Those topics are essential for graduate students for further development in the field of Statistics or related fields.
能力項目說明
The students will be able to make theoretical derivations and works on the following topics: 1. Probability theory 2. Transformations and expectations, including moments and moment generating functions. 3. Common families of distributions, including discrete distributions, continuous distributions, exponential families, and location and scale families. 4. Multivariate random variables and their distributions 5. Properties of a random sample, including sampling from normal distribution, order statistics, convergence concepts, etc. |
週次 |
課程主題 |
課程內容與指定閱讀 |
教學活動與作業 |
1 |
Probability theory |
1.1-1.3 |
1.1: 1.1-1.3, 1.9, 1.10, 1.14 ;
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2 |
Random variables |
1.4-1.6 |
1.4: 1.45, 1.46;1.6: 1.47-1.55;
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3 |
CDF, moments |
2.1-2.2 |
2.2: 2.11-2.16, 2.20-2.22, 2.23(b), 2.24HW1(due on Week4) |
4 |
MGF, distribution families |
2.3-2.4 |
2.3: 2.28-2.38;2.4: 2.4: 2.19, 2.39, 2.40HW2(due on Week 6) |
5 |
Common models |
3.2-3.4 |
3.2: 3.1~3.15, 3.18, 3.19, 3.22(a)(b);3.3: 3.17~3.21,3.22(c)(d)(e), 3.23-3.27 |
6 |
Local and scale families, inequalities |
3.4-3.6 |
3.4: 3.28-3.35;
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7 |
Bivariate random variables |
4.1 |
4.1: 4.1-4.7, 4.9, 4.14-4.16, 4.40(a)(b), 4.49 |
8 |
Review |
Ch1-3 |
Review |
9 |
Midterm |
Ch1-3 |
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10 |
Bivariate transformation, hierarchical and mixture models |
4.2-4.4 |
4.2: 4.8, 4.10-4.13, 4.15-4.17, 4.40(c), 4.45, 4.48;
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11 |
Multivariate distributions, covariance matrix |
4.4-4.6 |
4.5: 4.40(d), 4.41-4.44, 4.50, 4.58, 4.59;
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12 |
Inequalities |
4.6-4.7 |
4.6: 4.51-4.56
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13 |
Random sample and its properties |
5.1-5.2 |
5.1: 5.1, 5.2;
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14 |
Sum of variables, generating a random sample |
5.2; 5.6 |
5.2: 5.3, 5.5-5.12;5.6: Exercise 5.45-5.50, 5.56 |
15 |
Sampling distribution, convergence properties |
5.3;5.5 |
5.3: 5.12-5.20;5.5: 5.29-5.44HW5 (due on week 17) |
16 |
Order statistics |
5.4 |
5.4: 5.21-5.28 |
17 |
Review |
4-5 |
Review |
18 |
Final exam |
4-5 |
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Statistical inference, second edution; George Casella and Roger L. Berger