Department of Statistics

Current Sections   Recent Instructors Boss, Dennis	ST 793	Advanced Statistical Inference
	Course Description Statistical inference with emphasis on the use of statistical models, construction and use of likelihoods, general estimating equations, and large sample methods. Includes introduction to Bayesian statistics and the jackknife and bootstrap. Course Prerequisites ST 522 Course Corequisites None Recent Textbooks Essential Statistical Inference, Dennis D. Boos and L. A. Stefanski (2012) Other suggested references are: Theoretical Statistics, D. R. Cox and D. V. Hinkley (1974) Approximation Theorems of Mathematical Statistics, R. J. Serfling (1980) An Introduction to the Bootstrap, B. Efron and R. J. Tibshirani (1995) The Jackknife and Bootstrap, J. Shao and D. Tu (1995)