Credit hours
In-class work per week |
Practice per week |
Credits |
Duration |
Total |
3 |
1 |
8 |
15 weeks |
120 hours |
Instructor
Edwin Moises Marcos Ortega
Fábio Prataviera
Idemauro Antonio Rodrigues de Lara
Renata Alcarde Sermarini
Objective
Train students in topics on Probability Theory and Statistical Inference.
Content
SUMMARY: Study and development of probabilistic and inference methods.
PROGRAM CONTENT: 1. Algebra and sigma-algebra of random events. 2. Basic principles of probability
theory: axioms and theorems. 3. Random variable, distribution function, probability function and
probability density function.4. Families of probabilistic models. 5. Random vectors, joint cumulative
distribution function, marginal and conditional functions, independence of random variables. 6.
Mathematical expectation, variance, covariance, conditional expectation, expectation of random vector
functions, moment generating function. 7. Transformation of random vectors: distribution function,
Jacobian and moment generating function techniques. 8. Basic concepts of inference, random sampling
and properties, order statistics and sampling distributions. 9. Principles of data reduction, sufficient and
complete statistics, k-parametric exponential family. 10. Point estimation methods: least squares,
moments and maximum likelihood. 11. Properties and comparison of estimators, unbiased estimator of
uniformly minimum variance, mean squared error, Rao-Blackwell and Lehmann Scheffé theorems. 12.
Interval estimation: confidence intervals for parameters associated with normal random variables,
pivotal quantity method. 13. Introduction to hypothesis testing: basic concepts, types of errors and
power function, uniformly more powerful tests.
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