Statistics 743

Foundations of Statistics

Dr P.D.M. Macdonald

1998-99

Calendar Description

This course will cover sampling distributions (central and noncentral). Parametric inference: estimation, optimality, methods of estimation (maximum likelihood, minimum chi-square, least squares, etc.). Testing hypotheses, Neyman-Pearson lemma, unbiasedness, invariance, likelihood ratio tests. Randomization tests. Interval estimation. Non-parametric inference: rank order statistics. Introduction to linear models and applied regression analysis.

• Course Outline

Announcements

• Term 2 Lectures: Tuesday 12:30 - 15:30, in BSB-229
• Term 2 Office Hours: Tuesday 10:30 & 15:30, Wednesday 10:30, Thursday 9:30

Assignments

• Assignment #01 - Due 1998-10-30
• Assignment #02 - Due 1998-11-30
• Assignment #03 - Due 1999-03-02
• Assignment #04 - Due 1999-04-30
• Assignment #05 - Due 1999-04-30

Course Notes

• A Simulation Study of Skewness and Kurtosis using Splus
• Plotting gamma distributions in Splus
• Writing a trigamma function for Splus
• Specifying contrasts in Splus
• Confidence intervals for a Poisson mean
• Binomial GLM in Splus

Computing

• Running Splus at McMaster
• An Online Splus Tutorial from Dalhousie University

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 Statistics Links

• Statistics Seminars at McMaster
• Statistics Seminars in Southern Ontario

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