Mathematical Statistics
Stat 436
Brad Hartlaub
Spring 2026
Daily Agendas
- January 12
- January 14
- January 16 - Our first problem session for exercises in Chapters 6 and 7; Please drop one PDF with your solutions into your HW folder.
- January 19 - Continue our initial PS for Chapter 7
- January 21
- January 23 - PS for Chapter 8 exercises
- January 26 - SNOW DAY
- January 28
- January 30 - PS for remaining Chapter 8 exercises
- February 2
- February 4
- February 6 - No class, please work on Chapter 9 exercises
- February 9 - PS for Sections 9.1 through 9.3 exercises
- February 11
- February 13 - PS for Sections 9.4 and 9.5 exercises
- February 16
- February 18
- February 20 - PS for Sections 9.6 through 9.8
- February 23
- February 25 - PS for Sections 10.1 through 10.3
- February 27 - Exam #1 covering material from Chapters 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. You may use five sheets of notes and an R script or R Markdown file that you create during the exam.
- March 16
- March 18
- March 20 - PS for Sections 10.4 through 10.9
- March 22 - Complete Chapter 10 and begin power activity presentations
- March 24 - Complete power activity presentations and begin PS for Chapter 10 - Sections 10.10 and 10.11
- March 27 - PS for Sections 10.10 and 10.11
- March 30 - Complete PS for Sections 10.10 and 10.11
- April 1 - PS exercises for Chapter 11
- April 3 - PS for Chapter 11, Sections 11.1 through 11.6
- April 6 - PS exercises for Chapter 11, Sections 11.7 through 11.15
- April 8 - PS for Chapter 11, Sections 11.7 through 11.15
- April 10 - PS for Chapter 13, Sections 13.1 through 13.7
- April 13 - PS for Chapter 13, Sections 13.8 through 13.14
- April 15 - PS for Chapter 14
- April 17- Exam #2 covering the material from Chapters 10, 11, and 13. You may use five 8.5" x 11" sheets of notes and an R script or R Markdown file that you create durign the exam.
- April 20 - Student Presentations
- Peter Dunson - Factor Models in Mathematical Statistics
- April 22 - Student Presentations
- Joel Coons - Breusch-Pagan test for multiple variances
- Trang Nguyed - Brownian Motion
- April 24 - Student Presentations
- Ethan Liu - Connecting the Raydon-Nikodym Theorem and Mathematical Statistics
- Jonathan Lee - Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test
- April 27 - Student Presentations
- Sariyah Sintayehu - Empircal behavior of estimators via bootstrapping methods under varying conditions
- Abhigya Koirala - Poisson Regression and extensions
- April 29 - Student Presentations
- Parker Ellis - Lasso and Ridge Regression
- Advaitha Managandan - Copula modeling of dependence between random variables and applications to financial data
- May 1 - Student Presentation and individual meetings
- Eli Gonzalez - Bias-Variance Tradeoff
Homework Assignments
- HW #1 - PS on Friday, January 16 for Chapters 6 and 7, PS and written solutions are due for Chapter 8 on Friday, January 23
- HW #2 - PS on Friday, January 30, and written solutioins are due on Friday, January 30
- HW #3 - PS on Friday, February 6, and written solutions are due on Friday, February 6
- HW #4 - PS on Friday, February 13, and written solutions are due on Friday, February 13
- HW #5 - PS on Friday, February 20, and written solutions are due on Friday, February 20
- HW #6 - PS on Wednesday, February 25
- HW #7 - PS on Friday, March 20, and written solutions for Section 10.4 - 10.9 are due on Friday, March 20. PS on Friday, March 27, and written solutions are due for Sections 10.10 and 10.11 on Friday, March 27.
- HW #8 - PS will begin on Wednesday, April 1 with the PS exercises and continue on Friday, April 3, and written solutions are due on Friday, April 3
- HW #9 - PS will begin on Monday, April 6 with the PS exercises and continue on Wednesday, April 8 and Friday, April 10, and written solutions are due on Friday, April 10
- Project Proposal - You will introduce a topic in mathematical statistics to your peers during a class presentation. Your proposal, which is due on or before Wednesday, April 15, may be sent to me via email and must include your topic, preferred presentation date, partners name, and source(s). Your presentation should be 20 minutes in length, and you may use PDF slides, PowerPoint slides or GSlides for your formal presentation. Please drop your files into a folder that you create in our Projects_2026 folder on Google Drive at least 24 hours before your presentation. You can also put your handout (2 pages), data, and R code into this same folder for your peers. The handout is required, but the data and software code may not be appropriate for some topics. I would be happy to answer any questions you have about the materials you should share for your topic, but please share any materials that you think will be helpful for your peers to learn your topic of interest. There will be a five minute Q&A session with your peers, immediantely following your presentation. Your peers will also provide a peer-review of your work on this project.
- HW #10 - PS will begin on Friday, April 10 and we will keep moving through the exercises until we complete them
- HW #11 - PS for Chapter 14 will be on Wednesday, April 15
Sample Exams
- See !Exam Samples in our Google Drive folder
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