STATS 200B -- Theoretical Statistics

Winter 2022

  • Lectures: TR 12:30pm-1:45pm.
    • First two weeks: Delivered online via Zoom.
    • Afterwards: In person @ BOELTER 5436
  • Instructor: Arash A. Amini.
    • Office Hours: Thursdays 11am-1pm (starting 1/18/24). Online in Zoom.
  • TA: Tanvi Shinkre
    • TA Zoom link
    • TA Section: Wed 10-11am, MS 5128 (First 2 weeks on Zoom, link above)
    • TA Office hour: Thurs 10-11am, on Zoom, link above
  • Announcements: Will be posted Campuswire (Use code 9200).
  • Use Gradescope for homework submission. (Code X3PE8G)

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  • Notice: Please do not email me your late homework. Instead, post a note on Campuswire (it can have attachments) and set the visibility to TAs and Instructors only. We will address the issue there. Only requests through Campuswire are considered.

Exams

Syllabus

  • Statistical decision theory: frequentist and Bayesian approaches
  • Point estimation: sufficiency, Rao–Blackwell, UMVU, Cramér–Rao
  • Exponential families
  • Bayes risk and minimax
  • M-estimation and maximum likelihood
  • Asymptotic properties of estimators: consistency, asymptotic normality, delta method
  • Hypothesis testing and confidence intervals
  • High-dimensional inference: empirical processes, ULLNs, finite-sample bounds

Textbook

The electronic version of the book should be available form the publisher website (linked above) when accessed through the UCLA network. (You can use Stat. VPN if connecting from home.)

The following is a list of other closely related sources:

  • P. J. Bickel and K. A. Doksum, Mathematical Statistics, Basic Ideas and Selected Topics, Vol.1, Pearson, 2006.
  • E. L. Lehmann and G. Casella, Theory of Point Estimation, 2nd. Springer, 2003.
  • A. W. van der Vaart, Asymptotic Statistics. Cambridge University Press, 2000.
  • E. L. Lehmann and J. P. Romano, Testing Statistical Hypotheses, Springer, 2008.

Homework and slides

  • Homework and slides will be posted in the following Box folder.

Lecture Videos

Prerequisites

  • Upper division probability and statistics, real analysis and linear algebra.

Grading

  • Homework 60%, Final 40% (Take-home)

Misc