Textbook and Course Outline

The textbook is All of Statistics: A Concise Course in Statistical Inference, by Larry Wasserman. Part I (Chapters 1-5) cover probability theory, most of which you should already be familiar with, and so we will move rapidly through this material over about two weeks. We will spend about six weeks covering nearly all of Part II (Statistical Inference), and the remainder (about four weeks) on selected topics in Part III (Statistical Models and Methods) and, time-permitting, one or two additional topics from my area of expertise (Bayesian statistics and machine learning) that do not appear in the text. For a more detailed (tentative) schedule, see the course website (link at the top of this syllabus).