Mathematical Statistics
Stat 436
Brad Hartlaub
Spring 2024
Daily Agendas
- January 15
- January 17
- January 19 - Problem Session
- January 22 - Problem Session and lab work
- January 24
- January 26 - Problem Session
- January 29
- January 31
- February 2 - Problem Session
- February 5
- February 7
- February 9 - Problem Session
- February 12
- February 14
- February 16 - Problem Session
- February 19
- February 21
- February 23 - Problem Session
- February 26 - Problem Session
- February 28 - Problem Session
- March 1 - Exam #1
- March 18 - Discussion of Exam 1
- March 20
- March 22 - Problem Session
- March 25 - Likelihood ratio tests and complete problem session
- March 27
- March 29 - Problem Session
- April 1 - Problem Session and derivation of least squares estimators
- April 3 - Problem Session
- April 5 - Problem Session
- April 8 - no class, enjoy the solar eclipse and work on your project
- April 10 - Problem Session
- April 12 - Problem Session
- April 15 - Problem Session
- April 17 - Student Presentation and Review Questions
- Viet Dang - Bayesian versus frequentist approaches to clinical trials
- April 19 - Exam #2
- April 22 - Student Presentation and Problem Session
- Casey Flueckiger - M-estimation and the Heckman model
- Long Tran - False discovery rates (FDR)
- April 24 - Student Presentation and Problem Session
- Cael Elmore - Survival analysis and simulations
- Christophe Leblanc - Entropy
- April 26 - Student Presentation and Problem Session
- Andrew Pilat - Maximum likelihood estimation for phylogenetic trees
- Khue Tran - Hidden Markov models
- April 29 - Student Presentation and Problem Session
- Ryan Oscherwitz - Censored data and survival analysis
- Abdul Hafeez - Multivariate Analysis
- May 1 - Student Presentation and Problem Session
- Quang Nguyen - DiProPerm test and clustering methods
- Irina Beshentseva - Huber loss function and robust estimation
- May 3 - last day of class - individual meetings/overall standing
- May 10 - 1:30 - 4:30 pm - Final Exam (covering Chapters 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, and 16 and the material from the student projects)
Homework Assignments
- HW #1 - PS on Friday, January 19 for Chapters 6 and 7, PS and written solutions are due for Chapter 8 on Friday, January 26
- HW #2 - PS and written solutions are due on Friday, February 2
- HW #3 - PS and written solutions are due on Friday, February 9
- HW #4 - PS and written solutions are due on Friday, February 16
- HW #5 - PS and written solutions are due on Friday, Feburary 23
- HW #6 - PS and written solutions are due on Wednesday, February 28
- HW #7 - PS and written solutions are due on Friday, March 22
- HW #8 - PS and written solutions are due on Friday, March 29
- HW #9 - PS and written solutions are due on Friday, April 5
- HW #10 - PS and written solutions are due on Friday, April 12
- HW #11 - PS and written solutions are due on Friday, April 26
- Your project proposal is due by the end of the day on Wednesday, April 17.
- HW #12 - PS as time permits after project presentations
- HW #13 - PS as time permits after project presentations
- HW #14 - Write two exam questions (one take-home and one in class) and your solutions. The goal is to be creative and reward students who understand the material that we have covered. You can expect students to use RStudio, if you wish.Your questions and solutions are due on Wednesday, May 1.
Sample Exams
- See our Google Drive foler
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