https://www.ams.jhu.edu/~priebe/COURSES/FALL2014/550.630/630.html

"judge teaching not by the amount of knowledge it passes on, but by the enduring excitement it generates"
--- Gary Gutting

Statistical Theory (550.630) Fall 2014: Course Announcement

Prof: Carey E. Priebe ([email protected])
Office Hours: tbd

TA: Jordan Yoder ([email protected])
Office Hours: tbd

Lecture: MW @ 3-4:15 in Hodson 313
Section: Thu @ 3:00 in Whitehead 304

Textbook: ("It's an exercise in Bickel & Doksum!")
Bickel and Doksum, Mathematical Statistics, Vol I, 2/e, Updated Printing, 2007

--- (Be sure to get the 2007 "Updated Printing" version of the textbook!)

Bickel & Doksum can be difficult. Students often ask for recommended "companion textbooks".
I strongly recommend Rice, Mathematical Statistics and Data Analysis, 2007 -- this is the textbook we use for 550.430!
For a more thorough treatment of many B&D topics, see Lehmann's two volumes: Theory of Point Estimation and Testing Statistical Hypotheses.

Course Syllabus

Course Grading


"Truth cannot be imparted by simple recitation of facts,
but demands intuition, aesthetic insight, and imagination
as well as empirical observation and disciplined logic."
--- sentiment attributed to Plato by Karen Armstrong


Reading Assignment: Course Announcement , Course Syllabus
Reading Assignment: read chapter 1 (NB: chapter 1 summary)
Homework Assignment #1: due monday sep 08
Reading Assignment: read chapter 1 again!

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