What’s Going On?

Week 00 Aug 17 - Aug 21

Syllabus week! Welcome to STAT 510!

Reading

Section Source
Syllabus Course Website
The Extended Syllabus Instructor Website

Week 01 Aug 24 - Aug 28

First official week of class! Discussion of syllabus and plan for the semester! First content and homework will be released on Wednesday!

Reading

Section Source
Syllabus Course Website
The Extended Syllabus Instructor Website

Video

Title Link Mirror
1.1 - Welcome! 1.1 - YouTube 1.1 - MediaSpace

Office Hours

Staff and Link Day Time
Zoom with David Wednesday 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Zoom with Shen Thursday 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM

Week 02 Aug 31 - Sep 04

This week will be a whirlwind recap and review of probability and random variables.

Assignments

Assignment Deadline Submission
Homework 01 Friday, 11:59 PM Gradescope

Reading

Section Source
1.1 - 1.7 Wasserman
2.1 - 2.12 Wasserman
1.1 - 1.6 Evans and Rosenthal
2.1 - 2.10 Evans and Rosenthal

Video

Title Link Mirror
2.1 - Basic Probability 2.1 - YouTube 2.1 - MediaSpace
2.2 - Random Variable 2.2 - YouTube 2.2 - MediaSpace

Office Hours

Staff and Link Day Time
Zoom with David Wednesday 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Zoom with Shen Thursday 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM

Week 03 Sep 07 - Sep 11

This week is all about expectation.

Assignments

Assignment Deadline Submission
Homework 02 Friday, 11:59 PM Gradescope

Reading

Section Source
3.1 - 3.6 Wasserman
3.1 - 3.5, 3.7 - 3.8 Evans and Rosenthal

Video

Title Link Mirror
3.1 - Expectation 3.1 - YouTube 3.1 - MediaSpace

Office Hours

Staff and Link Day Time
Zoom with David Wednesday 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Zoom with Shen Thursday 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM

Week 04 Sep 14 - Sep 18

This week we will discuss probability inequalities and convergence of random variables.

Assignments

Assignment Deadline Submission
Homework 03 Friday, 11:59 PM Gradescope

Reading

Section Source
4.1 - 4.2 Wasserman
5.1 - 5.5 Wasserman
3.6 Evans and Rosenthal
4.2, 4.4 Evans and Rosenthal

Video

Title Link Mirror
4.1 - Inequalities 4.1 - YouTube 4.1 - MediaSpace
4.2 - Convergence 4.2 - YouTube 4.2 - MediaSpace

Office Hours

Staff and Link Day Time
Zoom with David Wednesday 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Zoom with Shen Thursday 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM

Week 05 Sep 21 - Sep 25

This week we will introduce statistical inference then focus on estimating CDFs.

Assignments

Assignment Deadline Submission
Homework 04 Friday, 11:59 PM Gradescope

Reading

Section Source
6.1 - 6.3 Wasserman
7.1 - 7.2 Wasserman

Video

Title Link Mirror
5.1 - Statistical Inference 5.1 - YouTube 5.1 - MediaSpace
5.2 - Empirical Distribution 5.2 - YouTube 5.2 - MediaSpace

Office Hours

Staff and Link Day Time
Zoom with David Wednesday 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Zoom with Shen Thursday 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM

Week 06 Sep 28 - Oct 02

This week we will discuss the bootstrap. Note that until the usual deadline, the homework is “posted” in the next week, because that is when it is due.

Reading

Section Source
8.1 - 8.3 Wasserman

Video

Title Link Mirror
6.1 - Simulation 6.1 - YouTube 6.1 - MediaSpace
6.2 - Bootstrap 6.2 - YouTube 6.2 - MediaSpace

Office Hours

Staff and Link Day Time
Zoom with Shen Thursday 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Zoom with David Friday 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Week 07 Oct 05 - Oct 09

Aside from the homework due on Tuesday, the rest of the week should be used to prepare for the exam!

Assignments

Assignment Deadline Submission
Homework 05 Tuesday, 11:59 PM Gradescope

Office Hours

Staff and Link Day Time
Zoom with David Wednesday 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Zoom with Shen Thursday 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Zoom with David Saturday 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Week 08 Oct 12 - Oct 16

It’s exam time! After the exam, we get your thoughts on some logistics for the second half of the semester.

Assignments

Assignment Deadline Submission
Exam 01 Monday, 7:00 PM Gradescope

Week 09 Oct 19 - Oct23

Post midterm exam week. No new content or office hours this week. Will post Week 10 content ASAP.

Week 10 Oct 26 - Oct 30

This week we will discuss how to construct estimators for parametric inference.

Assignments

Assignment Deadline Submission
Homework 06 Friday, 11:59 PM Gradescope

Reading

Section Source
9.1 - 9.13 Wasserman
6.1 - 6.5 Evans and Rosenthal

Video

Title Link Mirror
10.1 Parametric Inference I 10.1 - YouTube 10.1 - MediaSpace

Office Hours

Staff and Link Day Time
Zoom with David Wednesday 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Zoom with Shen Thursday 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM

Week 11 Nov 02 - Nov 06

This week we will discuss properties of the estimators we found last week.

Assignments

Assignment Deadline Submission
Homework 07 Friday, 11:59 PM Gradescope

Reading

Section Source
9.1 - 9.13 Wasserman
6.1 - 6.5 Evans and Rosenthal

Video

Title Link Mirror
11.1 Parametric Inference II 11.1 - YouTube 11.1 - MediaSpace

Office Hours

Staff and Link Day Time
Zoom with David Wednesday 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Zoom with Shen Thursday 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM

Week 12 Nov 09 - Nov 13

This week we will discuss hypothesis testing.

Assignments

Assignment Deadline Submission
Homework 08 Friday, 11:59 PM Gradescope

Reading

Section Source
10.1 - 10.8 Wasserman
6.3 Evans and Rosenthal

Office Hours

Staff and Link Day Time
Zoom with David Wednesday 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Zoom with Shen Thursday 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM

Week 13 Nov 16 - Nov 20

This week we will take a brief look at Bayesian inference.

Assignments

Assignment Deadline Submission
Homework 09 Friday, 11:59 PM Gradescope

Reading

Section Source
11.1 - 11.9 Wasserman
7.1 - 7.4 Evans and Rosenthal

Office Hours

Staff and Link Day Time
Zoom with David Wednesday 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Zoom with Shen Thursday 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM

Week 14 Nov 23 - Nov 27

This week is Fall Break. There are no course activities, including no office hours.

Week 15 Nov 30 - Dec 04

This week we will take a brief look at decision theory, but also review and prepare for the final exam.

Assignments

Assignment Deadline Submission
Homework 10 December 7, 11:59 PM Gradescope

Reading

Section Source
12.1 - 12.7 Wasserman

Office Hours

Staff and Link Day Time
Zoom with David Wednesday 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Zoom with Shen Thursday 9:00 PM - 11:00 PM

Week 16 Dec 07 - Dec 11

Last week of class. Thursday is reading day.

Office Hours

Staff and Link Day Time
Zoom with David Wednesday 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Week 17 Dec 14 - Dec 18

Finals week!

Assignments

Assignment Deadline Submission
Exam 02 Thursday, 8:00 AM Gradescope

Office Hours

Staff and Link Day Time
Zoom with David Wednesday 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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