Fundamentals of Mathematical Statistics

Autumn semester 2016

General information

Lecturer Fadoua Balabdaoui
Assistants Andreas Elsener, Emilija Perkovic
Lectures Wed 10-12 and Fri 8-10 HG E 1.1 >>
Exercises Tue 12-13 HG E 1.1 >>
Course catalogue data >>

Course content

In mathematical statistics, data is exploited to get information about certain aspects of the underlying probability distributions. This lecture covers: introductory examples, formalism of decision theory, optimality measures, optimality in simple models, asymptotics of estimators and tests.

Announcements

  • August 23, 2016:
    Beginning of lecture: Wednesday, 21/09/2016.
  • September 5, 2016:
    First exercise class: Tuesday, 27/09/2016.

Course materials

Last year's lecture notes are available here: Lecture Notes AS 2015

Exercise classes

Exercise classes are every week starting on September 27, 2016.

Series and solutions

The Series solutions should be handed in by 12.15PM of the designated date. You can submit your solutions to the assistants during the exercise class or by placing them in the Fundamentals of Mathematical Statistics box in room HG J 68.

Exercises Solutions Due date
Series 1 Solutions 1 October 4, 2016
Series 2 (updated 05.10.) Solutions 2 October 11, 2016
Series 3 (updated 10.10.) Solutions 3 October 18, 2016
Series 4 Solutions 4 October 25, 2016
Series 5 (fixed typo 31.10.) Solutions 5 (updated) November 1, 2016
Series 6 (updated 31.10.) Solutions 6 November 8, 2016
Series 7 (updated 8.11.) Solutions 7 (fixed typo 4.12.) November 15, 2016
Series 8 Solutions 8 (updated 25.11.) November 22, 2016
Series 9 Solutions 9 November 29, 2016
Series 10 Solutions 10 December 6, 2016
Series 11 (fixed typo 12.12.) Solutions 11 December 13, 2016
Series 12 Solutions 12 December 20, 2016