Statistics 725 - Estmtn Th&Hypo Tst I

The advanced theory of statistics, including methods of estimation (unbiasedness, equivariance, maximum likelihood, Bayesian, minimax), optimality properties of estimators, hypothesis testing, uniformly most powerful tests, unbiased tests, invariant tests, relationship between confidence regions and tests, large sample properties of tests and estimators. Prerequisites: Statistc 605 and 608.