Inference
Course, Master's level, 2ST120
Autumn 2024 Autumn 2024, Uppsala, 50%, On-campus, English
- Location
- Uppsala
- Pace of study
- 50%
- Teaching form
- On-campus
- Instructional time
- Daytime
- Study period
- 6 November 2024–19 January 2025
- Language of instruction
- English
- Entry requirements
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120 credits including 90 credits in statistics, or 120 credits including 60 credits in statistics and 30 credits in mathematics and/or computer science
- Selection
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Higher education credits (maximum 285 credits)
- Fees
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If you are not a citizen of a European Union (EU) or European Economic Area (EEA) country, or Switzerland, you are required to pay application and tuition fees.
- First tuition fee instalment: SEK 15,000
- Total tuition fee: SEK 15,000
- Application deadline
- 15 April 2024
- Application code
- UU-26608
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About the course
Coverage of the main parametric techniques used in statistical inference. Data reduction. Method of moments, maximum likelihood, and Bayesian point estimation. The Cramer-Rao inequality. Interval estimation. Pivotal quantities. Inversion methods. Principles of deriving tests. Neyman-Pearson lemma. Uniformly most powerful tests. Likelihood ratio tests. Large sample tests. Wald & score tests. Bayesian interval estimation and hypothesis testing.