STAT 582: Winter Quarter, 2001

When: MWF 10.30-11.20
Where: GLD 436 (Does Gould really have four floors??)
Instructor: Elizabeth Thompson

By January 3, there may be more information here. As you may know, teaching STAT 582 was not my plan for Winter quarter!! However, we shall all survive. HAPPY NEW YEAR.

Potentially useful book, for anyone who can get hold of it:
Ferguson, TS, 1967. Mathematical Statistics: a decision-theoretic approach.

Official information

Homework (drop lowest score) 30%
Midterm 30%; in class Wed February 7
Final exam; in class 8.30-10.20 a.m., Monday March 12 (official): 40%

Announcements

I am gone Feb 26; Amy Anderson will see the class. Here is what I propose you do in the Feb 26 class.

Office hours, communication etc.

1) Remember to keep checking this web page.

2) We now have MSCC class e-mail.
You can subscribe on the web. Whatever email address you specify on the web form (or send the subscribe email from if you instead subscribe by email), will be the one it has for you, and will need to specify to unsubscribe, if you ever want to.
A web archive of all e-mail traffic on this list is maintained.

3) Office hours
Definite: Tuesdays 5.00-6.00, in Biostat conference room (Non-Biostat people:
they asked me to warn you the office will be locked, but if you shout loud enough I can let you in)
Provisional: Thursdays 5.00-6.00, in Padelford C-317
Here is a link to my schedule for this quarter.

Class Schedule and course outline

Click on above heading for daily schedule, with links to homeworks, notes, and references.

Homeworks

  • Homework 1; due Wednesday, Jan 10
  • Homework 2; due Wednesday, Jan 17
  • Homework 3; due Wednesday, Jan 24
  • Homework 4; due Wednesday, Jan 31
    NO homework; week of Midterm, Feb 7
  • Homework 5; due Wednesday, Feb 14.
  • Homework 6, redo midterm plus two additional questions ; due Wednesday, Feb 21.
  • Homework 7; due Wednesday, Feb 28.
  • Homework 8; due Wednesday, Mar 7.
    (This final one may get updated (today is 2/22), but probably not.)

    Miscellaneous notes

    Here are Piet Groonebaum's notes on the EM algorithm.
    Introductory notes from my 1998 Stat513, for Decision Theory and Invariance.
    Here is a link to Peter Guttorp's STAT 581-2-3 pages
    Here is a link to Jon Wellner's 1997-8 Stat 581-2-3 lecture notes.