MATH 621 Theory of Statistics
Topics from sampling and statistics, estimation theory and tests of hypothesis. Special emphasis on order statistics, quantiles and their applications, classical and Bayesian estimation, sufficiency, completeness, uniqueness, likelihood-based approaches, hypothesis testing based on Neyman-Pearson approach, goodness-of-fit, nonparametric tests, correlation and regression, bootstrapping. Prerequisite: MATH 620 or permission of the department chairperson.