Fall25-Spring26
STAT451/551 - STAT452/552
Theoretical Statistics I and II
Department of Statistics
University of Akron
Part1
2A Probability Basics
2B Counting Techniques
2C Conditional Probability
2D Prob Through Set Op
2E+F Independence
2G Law of Tot Prob
3A Discrete RV
3B Expectation
3C Variance
3C-2 Moment Generating Function
3D Binomial Distribution
3E Poisson Distribution
3F Negative Binomial Dist
3G Hypergeometric Dist
Part2
4A Continuous RV
4B Expectation of g(x)
4C MGF
4D Bounded Dist (Unif + Beta)
4E Exponential Dist
4F Gamma and other non-neg Dist
4G Min and Max of iid RVs
4H Normal Distribution
4I Goodness-of-Fit
Part3
4J Scale Parameter
4L Mixed, Censored, and Truncated RV
4M Inequalities
5A Discrete Joint Distribution
5B Continuous Joint Distribution
5C Covariance and Correlation
5D Joint MGF
(5E) Multivariate Normal
5F Conditional Distribution
5G LoTE and LoTV
Part4
6A Univariate Transformation
6B Uniformization Transformation
6C Method of MGF
6D Bivariate Transformation
7A Sampling Distribution
7B Central Limit Theorem
7C Normal Appoximation of Binomial
Part5
8A Bias and MSE of Point Estimators
8B Some Common Unbiased Estimators
8C Evaluating the GoF of a Point Estimator
8D Confidence Intervals
9A Relative Efficiency
9B Consistency
9C Sufficiency
9D The Rao-Blackwell Theorem and MVUE
9E The Method of Moments
9F The Method of Maximum Likelihood
9G Some Large-Sample Properties of MLE
Part6
10A Elements of a Statistical Test
10B Common Large-Sample Tests
10C Calculating sample size and beta
10D Relationship between HoT and CI
10E Another Way to Report the Results
10F Some Comments on the Theory of HT
10G Small-Sample Hyp Testing
10H Testing Hyp Concerning Variances
10I Power and the Neyman–Pearson Lemma
10J Likelihood Ratio Tests
Textbooks
(Wackerly) Mathematical Statistics 7th ed.
(Casella and Berger) Statistical Inference 2nd ed.
(Ross) First Course in Probability
R and Rstudio
R (CRAN)
Rstudio
Intro to R/R-studio
R resources
Databank
UCI
Scikit-learn
Kaggle
DASL
Stat Applets
RVLS
CLT applet
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