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Spring, 2006      STA/OR 525 - 001 Introductory Statistical Infernce

Instructor: Dr. Mai Zhou

Office: P. O. T. 849, Mailbox: P. O. T. 843, Phone: 257-6912, E-mail: mai@ms.uky.edu,
Web page (this page): http://www.ms.uky.edu/~mai/sta525.html Office Hours: TR 3:15PM-5:00PM or by appointment.

Class: TR 12:30 PM -- 1:45 PM at POT 107. Final Exam: Thur. May 4, 10:30 AM -- 12:30 PM.

Textbook: PDF file of Lecture Notes: We cover Chapter 9, 10, 11 and some of Chapter 12. These Chapters are in part2 below, but you may want to download the whole book for reference. Part2, Part1, TableOfContent

Alternative reference book: Degroot, M. and Schervish, M. (2002). Probability and Statistics, 3rd Edition. Addison Wesley. This book cost over 100 dollars.

The following notes may be useful:
Mean-Square Error
Fisher info
Bayes method
MLE computation in R

homework1
homework2
homework3
an example
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Homework5
Example 2
Homework6
8 page notes on Fisher info by Geyer.

Evaluations:
Homework 30%
Two Midterm Exams 40% Feb. 21 & March 23 ?
Final Exam 30% May 4, 2006 10:30AM