Statistics 370 - Theoretical Statistics

Spring
2016
01
4.00
Nicholas Horton
MW 02:30PM-04:00PM
Amherst College
STAT-370-01-1516S
MERR 131
nhorton@amherst.edu
MATH-370-01,STAT-370-01

(Offered as STAT 370 and MATH 370.) This course examines the theory behind common statistical inference procedures including estimation and hypothesis testing. Beginning with exposure to Bayesian inference, the course will cover Maximum Likelihood Estimators, sufficient statistics, sampling distributions, joint distributions, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing and test selection, non-parametric procedures, and linear models. Four class hours per week.


Requisite: STAT 111 or STAT 135 and STAT 360, or consent of the instructor. Spring semester.  Professor Horton.

Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.