Cheung: 01-07

P8109: Statistical Inference

Time:
Tuedays & Thursdays, 10:30-11:45 (first day of class: 10:00-12:00)

Place:
Hammer Health Sciences Center 322

Instructor:

• Ken Cheung
• Office: 722 West 168th Street, Room 641
• Phone: 305-3332 (x53332)
• e-mail: yc632@columbia.edu
• webpage http://www.columbia.edu/~yc632/

Course Helpers:

• Rui Liu <rl2230@columbia.edu>
• Yulei Zhang <yz2157@columbia.edu>

Office Hours:

• Tuesdays 9:20-10:20/Room 641/Ken Cheung
• Tuesdays 1:00-2:00/Room 656 (computer lab)/Yulei Zhang
• Wednesdays 3:00-4:00/Room 656 (computer lab)/Rui Liu

Main Text:

• Larry Wasserman (2004). All of Statistics. Springer.

Recommended References:

• John Rice (1995). Mathematical Statistics and Data Analysis (2nd edition). Duxbury.
• George Casella and Roger L. Berger (1990). Statistical Inference (2nd edition). The Wadsworth & Brooks/Cole.
• Peter J. Bickel and Kjell A. Doksum (1977). Mathematical statistics: Basic ideas and selected topics. Holden-Day.

Student work:

• Homework will be assigned during each Thursday lecture and will be due in at the beginning of the following Thursday lecture.
• Two exams (date TBA)
• Term project

Course page:
http://www.columbia.edu/~yc632/p8109/