Instructor: Radford Neal, Phone: (416) 978-4970, Office: SS6016A, Email: radford@stat.utoronto.ca
Office Hours: Thursdays, 2:10-3:30.
Lectures:
Mondays from 3:10pm to 5:00pm and Thursdays from 11:10 to 12:00, in WE 75.
From September 9 to December 5, except for Thanksgiving (October 14), and
from January 6 to April 10, except for Reading Week (February 17-21).
Course Text:
M. J. Schervish, Theory of Statistics. See the author's web page for corrections to the text.
Evaluation:
Homework assignments, 45%.
Three two-hour tests, each worth 15%, tentatively Nov. 11, Feb. 24, Apr. 7.
Class participation and presentations, 10%.
Weeks 1-2: Read 1.1-1.4, 8.1.1, 8.2.1.
Weeks 3-7: Read 2.1-2.2.
Weeks 8-13: Read 3.1-3.2.
Weeks 14-17: Read 4.1-4.6.
Weeks 18-22: Read 5.1-5.2, 2.3.1.
Weeks 23-26: Read 7.1-7.5.
Problem set 1, due in class September 30: Chapter 1 exercises 8, 14, 16, 17, 26.
Problem set 2, now due in class October 21: postscript, pdf.
Problem set 3, due in class October 31: postscript, pdf.
Problem set 4, due in class December 5: postscript, pdf.
Problem set 5, due in class February 13: postscript, pdf.
Problem set 6, due in class March 24: postscript, pdf.
Some non-credit exercises from the book: Chapter 7, exercises 4, 12, 21, 29, 42.