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Statistical Inference - MATH5905
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Faculty: Faculty of Science
 
 
School:  School of Mathematics and Statistics
 
 
Course Outline: http://www.maths.unsw.edu.au/
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

The course presents theoretical foundations for statistical inference from a frequentist and Bayesian perspective. Topics include: Hierarchical and Bayesian models; general inference theory based on maximum likelihood and Bayesian theory; point estimation: finding and evaluating estimators;
hypothesis testing: finding and evaluating tests; interval estimation: constructing and evaluating intervals; introduction to decision theory.

Topics include decision theory; general theory of estimation and hypothesis testing; robustness of the statistical procedures; introduction to the bootstrap.

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