SDS 4020 Schedule - Spring 2026

Instructor: Likai Chen (likai.chen[at]wustl.edu)

This a temporary schedule and will be updated as the semester goes.

Week Topic Chapters Homeworks Handouts
Week 1: 1/12, 1/14, 1/16 Review of MGFs, Special distributions Chapter 3.5,3.6
Lecture1: Special distributions
Randomnum.R
Week 2: Martin Luther King, 1/21, 1/23 Introduction to statistical inference: estimation Chapter 4.1 Lecture2:IntroToInference
Week 3: 1/26, 1/28, 1/30 Confidence intervals, hypothesis testing Chapter 4.2
Week 4: 2/2, 2/4, 2/6 Hypothesis testing (Z-test, t-test, F-tests) Chapter 4.5,4.6
Week 5: 2/9, 2/11, 2/13 Chisquare Test, ordered statistics Chapter 4.7 Chisquaretest
Week 6:2/16, 2/18 2/20 review session Chapter 4.4 4.8 1st Midterm
2019 spring midterm
2019 spring midterm solution
Week 7: 2/23, 2/25, 2/27 Convergence Chapter 5.1,5.2 Convergence
Week 8: 3/2, 3/4, 3/6 Convergence,CLT Chapter 5.2,5.3
Week 9: Spring break
Week 10: 3/16, 3/18, 3/20 MLE, Rao-Cramer LectureNote.1021
LectureNote.1023
LectureNote.1025
Week 11: 3/23, 3/25, 3/27 Rao-Cramer, Likelihood Ratio Tests Chapter 6.2, 6.3, 6.4 LectureNote.1028
LikelihoodRatioTest
Tests
Week 12: 3/30,4/1 4/3 Likelihood Ratio Tests, Review of 2nd midterm Chapter 6.3, 6.4,7.2 2nd Midterm Practice exam
Practice exam solution
Week 13: 4/6, 4/8,4/10 Sufficient statistics, Sufficiency Chapter 7.2,7.3
LectureNote.1104
LectureNote.1106
LectureNote.1108
Week 14: 4/13, 4/15, 4/17 Sufficiency continue Chapter 7.4-7.7 LectureNote.1120
LectureNote.1122
Week 15: 4/20, 4/22, 4/24 UMVUE,UMP Chapter 7.1,7.3, 8.1-8.3 LectureNote.1125
LectureNote.1202
LectureNote.1202 LectureNote.0426
Week 16: Final Week Final PracticeFinal
PracticeFinal_solution