BIOST 2051 - STATISTICAL ESTIMATION THEORY

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Fisher's information; Rao-Cramer Inequality and Sufficient Statistics; Bhattacharyya Bounds; Rao-Blackwell Theorem; Methods of Moments; the Method of Maximum Likelihood; Newton-Raphson Method and Rao's Scoring for Parameters; estimation of several parameters; order statistics and life testing problems; estimation with censored data and survival analysis.
Academic Career: Graduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Grad LG/SU3 Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: BIOST 2042 and 2044

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