Classes are normally held in RE 102 at 10 AM on Tuesdays and Thursdays
January
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Tue Jan 13 |
Introductory Examples, Course Overview |
Introduction and Probability Review |
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Thu Jan 15 |
Introductory Examples, Key Probability Concepts |
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Fri Jan 16 |
Diagnostic Survey Due |
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Tue Jan 20 |
Key Probability Concepts, Important Distributions, Conditional Probability |
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Thu Jan 22 |
Conditional Probability, Convergence, Central Limit Theorem |
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Tue Jan 27 |
Central Limit Theorem, Chebyshev’s Inequality, Summary Statistics |
Estimation and Confidence Intervals |
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Thu Jan 29 |
Summary Statistics, Maximum Likelihood Estimation, Bias, Mean Squared Error |
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February
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Fri Jan 30 |
Assignment 2 Due |
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Tue Feb 3 |
Distributions of estimators |
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Thu Feb 5 |
Confidence intervals |
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Tue Feb 10 |
Confidence intervals for means |
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Thu Feb 12 |
Confidence intervals for variances, Bootstrap confidence intervals |
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Fri Feb 13 |
Assignment 3 Due |
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Tue Feb 17 |
Sufficient statistics and related topics |
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Thu Feb 19 |
Completeness, Rao-Blackwell, Cramér-Rao lower bound, exponential families |
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Tue Feb 24 |
Prediction and tolerance intervals, hypothesis testing |
Hypothesis Testing |
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Thu Feb 26 |
Test 1 |
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March
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Tue Mar 3 |
Hypothesis testing examples, likelihood ratio tests |
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Thu Mar 5 |
Likelihood ratio tests |
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Fri Mar 6 |
Project Submission Due |
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Tue Mar 10 |
Review of concepts, look at Test 1, linear models |
Linear Models |
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Thu Mar 12 |
Ordinary least squares |
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Fri Mar 13 |
Assignment 4 Due |
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Tue Mar 17 |
No Class, Spring Break |
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Thu Mar 19 |
No Class, Spring Break |
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Tue Mar 24 |
Ordinary least squares and inference |
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Thu Mar 26 |
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Ordinary least squares inference and diagnostics |
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Tue Mar 31 |
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April
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Thu Apr 2 |
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Tue Apr 7 |
Test 2 on Optimality of Estimators, Hypothesis Testing, and Ordinary Least Squares Through Inference |
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Thu Apr 9 |
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Fri Apr 10 |
Assignment 5 Due |
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Tue Apr 14 |
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Thu Apr 16 |
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Mon Apr 20 |
Project Presentation in Galvin Tower 14th Floor West Side Conference Room |
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Tue Apr 21 |
Project Presentation in Galvin Tower 14th Floor West Side Conference Room |
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Wed Apr 22 |
Project Presentation in Galvin Tower 14th Floor West Side Conference Room |
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Thu Apr 23 |
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Tue Apr 28 |
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Thu Apr 30 |
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May
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Tue May 5 |
Final Exam in HH 003 |
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