Week - 1 |
Introduction to parameter estimation |
Week - 2 |
Properties of estimators: sufficiency and completeness |
Week - 3 |
Properties of estimators: efficiency, unbiasedness and consistency |
Week - 4 |
Methods of finding estimators: moment estimators |
Week - 5 |
Methods of finding estimators: maximum likelihood estimators |
Week - 6 |
Minimum-variance unbiased estimators |
Week - 7 |
Cramer-Rao inequality |
Week - 8 |
Rao-Blackwell theorem |
Week - 9 |
Lehmann-Scheffe uniqueness theorem |
Week - 10 |
Introduction to hypothesis testing |
Week - 11 |
Test function, Error probabilities and power function |
Week - 12 |
Most powerful tests: Neyman-Pearson lemma |
Week - 13 |
Likelihood ratio tests |
Week - 14 |
Interval estimators |