Elements of statistics
MATH0487-2, University of Liège, Fall 2022
Instructors: Lecturer: Pierre Sacré Teaching assistants: Antoine Debor, Arnaud Delaunoy, Antoine Evens Student instructors: ??, ??, ??
Lectures: Tuesdays, 8:15am-10:15am in B4 A204
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Schedule and materials
Slides are made available as the semester progresses.
This tentative schedule is subject to change.
| Date | Slides |
|---|---|
| Tue 20/09 | Overview [slides] Introduction [slides] Models, likelihood, and estimation [slides] |
| Tue 27/09 | (no class) |
| Tue 04/10 | Exercises 1 [list] |
| Tue 11/10 | Point estimation [slides] |
| Tue 18/10 | Exercises 2 [list] |
| Tue 25/10 | Interval estimation [slides] |
| Tue 01/11 | (no class) |
| Tue 08/11 | Exercises 3 [list] |
| Tue 15/11 | Hypothesis testing (part 1) [slides] |
| Tue 22/11 | Hypothesis testing (part 2) [slides] |
| Tue 29/11 | Exercises 4 [list] |
| Tue 06/12 | Bayesian statistics [slides] |
| Tue 13/12 | Exercises 5 [list] |
Additional materials
Most relevant books (see on myULiège):
- All of statistics: A concise course in statistical inference Larry Wasserman Springer, 2004
- Mathematical statistics and data analysis John A. Rice Cengage Learning, 2014
- Mathematical methods for physics and engineering K. F. Riley, M. P. Hobson, S. J. Bence Cambridge University Press, 2006 (chapter 30 ‘Probability’ and chapter 31 ‘Statistics’)
Lecture slides from MATH0062 2021-2022 [slide].
Archives
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