STAT 652

Sec. 002

Statistical Inference

Spring 2020

Syllabus (last updated: Mar. 18, 2020)

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Announcements (last updated: May 7, 2020 (7:46 PM))

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Homework (last updated: Apr. 8, 2020)

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Comments (last updated: Jan. 25, 2011)

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Final Exam (last updated: May 5, 2020)

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Other links:

• "Interval Estimation for a Binomial Proportion" in the May 2001 issue of Statistical Science presents material on the confidence intervals I discussed during the last lecture. (Note: I recommend also reading the comments given by seven other statisticians that appear (with a rejoinder). Although the authors of the paper do a good job of presenting the facts, I don't agree with the way in which they interpret them --- I believe that many of the opinions expressed by the others who comment on the paper are better than those of the paper's authors. I based the comments that I made in class on not just the original paper I mentioned, but also on the comments supplied by the others, who had many disagreements with the paper's authors.)
• R code for Monte Carlo comparison of confidence interval (for mean of exponential distribution) coverage probabilities