Announcements: Welcome to BIOS 6342!
Syllabus: The most recent syllabus (Spring 2026) can be found here.
Lecture notes: Although it is my hope that the materials on this page are broadly helpful, they are not to be copied without permission of the instructor.
| # | Topic | Slides |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sufficiency, ancillarity, and completeness | Link |
| 2 | Point estimation | Link |
| 3 | Large sample theory | Link |
| 4 | Hypothesis testing and confidence intervals | Link |
| 5 | Bayesian statistics | Link |
| 6 | Foundations of decision theory | Link |
| 7 | Model misspecification | Link |
| 8 | Nonparametric methods | Link |
Labs: Links to the labs are provided below.
| # | Date | Topic | Lab |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 01/09 | Sufficiency in pictures | Link |
| 2 | 01/16 | Minimal sufficiency, ancillarity, completeness | Link |
| 3 | 01/23 | Point estimation methods | Link |
| 4 | 01/30 | Rao-Blackwellization | Link |
| 5 | 02/06 | Practice with a regular model | Link |
| 6 | 02/27 | Size and power by simulation | Link |
| 7 | 03/06 | The likelihood ratio test | Link |
| 8 | 03/20 | More practice with a regular model | Link |
| 9 | 03/27 | Bayesian methods | Link |
| 10 | 04/14 | The sandwich variance | Link |
Problem sets: The course problems can be found here. Problems will be due in batches (a schedule is placed below).
| # | Due date | Assigned | Graded thoroughly |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 01/15 | 1-2 | 2 |
| 2 | 01/20 | 3-7 | 3, 5 |
| 3 | 02/03 | 8-11 | 9, 11 |
| 4 | 02/06 | 12-15 | 13, 15 |
| 5 | 02/10 | 16-19 | 16, 17 |
| 6 | 02/20 | 20-24 | 21, 23, 24 |
| 7 | 02/24 | 25-27 | 25, 26 |
| 8 | 02/27 | 28-29 | 28 |
| 9 | 03/06 | 30-33 | 30, 32 |
| 10 | 03/19 | 34-36 | 34, 36 |
| 11 | 03/24 | 37-39 | 38, 39 |
| 12 | 03/31 | 40-42 | 42 |
| 13 | 04/10 | 43-45 | 43 |
| 14 | 04/17 | 46-50 | 46, 50 |