Current Courses

I am currently the instructor for STAT4101 in the fall semester and STAT4102 in the spring semester.  The courses are intended for upper-level undergraduates with a calculus background and are primarily taken by Economics and Statistics majors pursuing B.S. degrees.  I have been the instructor for these courses since the 2008 - 2009 school year.

Please note that all course information has migrated to the moodle site (login required).

Please e-mail me if you have any questions regarding these courses: [my first name] at stat.umn.edu.

Topics covered:

STAT4101 (4 credits, Fall only) Theory of Statistics I

Basic probability rules; random variables; expectation and variance; common discrete and continuous distribution families; moment generating function; sampling distributions, central limit theorem.

STAT4102 (4 credits, Spring only) Theory of Statistics II

Likelihood; sufficiency; estimators; hypothesis testing and significance tests; power; linear regression; Bayesian analysis.