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BIOS 6206 - Statistical Theory II

[3 Credits]
Three hours of lecture per week. Principles of data reduction, sufficiency and completeness, minimal sufficient statistics; the likelihood principle; point estimation, method of moments, maximum likelihood estimation; methods of evaluating estimators, unbiased estimation, Fisher information, hypotheses testing, likelihood ratio tests, methods of evaluating tests, methods of evaluating interval estimators Prerequisite: BIOS 6204