Sufficient statistics, simple and composite hypotheses, most powerful and similar region test, distribution-free tests, confidence intervals, goodness-of-fit and likelihood ratio tests, large sample theory, Bayesian and likelihood methods, sequential tests. Prerequisite(s): STAT 4500 or permission of the School.Also offered at the graduate level, with different requirements, as STAT 5501, for which additional credit is precluded.Lectures three hours a week.
Sufficient statistics, simple and composite hypotheses, most powerful and similar region test, distribution-free tests, confidence intervals, goodness-of-fit and likelihood ratio tests, large sample theory, Bayesian and likelihood methods, sequential tests. Prerequisite(s): STAT 4500 or permission of the School.Also offered at the graduate level, with different requirements, as STAT 5501, for which additional credit is precluded.Lectures three hours a week.