UN5204 Statistical Inference

• Email: fl2744@columbia.edu
• Office Hours: 8-10pm Friday, School of Social Work (SSW) 1021.

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Communication

• CourseWorks (Canvas): This is where you can find all the official materials, submissions, and annoucements.
• Please scroll down to see the comments I write about the homework/exams.

LaTeX Lecture Notes

I maintain a set of LaTeX lecture notes for this course, hosted on Overleaf:

Lecture Notes

These notes are meant to supplement the Prof. de la Pena’s lectures. They will be updated throughout the semester. And everyone is welcome to contribute and edit :)

Homework 1

• The homework problems are selected from the textbook (Probability and Statistics, 4th edition, by DeGroot and Schervish)

Problem 1: 6.3.10

• Part a: Apply Chebyshev inequality and solve an inequality : )
• Part b: the amount of data needed is significantly smaller. Why?

Problem 2: 6.3.12

• Come back later for updates : )

  Problem 3: 6.3.14

Problem 4: 6.3.15

Problem 5: 6.5.2

Problem 6: 6.5.12

Problem 7: 7.2.10

Problem 8: 7.3.6

Problem 9: 7.3.14

Problem 10: 7.3.24

FAQ

Will update throughout the semester : )