Statistical Inference 2019

A reference about distributions: Johnson, Kotz and Balakrishnan - Continuous Univariate Distributions Vol. 1 and 2

• August 23
  • Brief intro to R (how to plot)
  • Brief intro to Julia (how to plot)
• September 3
  • ECDF with confidence bands with Python
  • Histograms, ECDF and QQ plots with Julia
• September 13
  • Normal inference through maximum likelihood
• October 3
  • The negative binomial distribution
• October 11
  • Inference of normal distribution through maximum likelihood

    I added some ideas of Eloisa Diaz-Frances, such as symmetric reparametrization.

• November 19
  • Parametric bootstrap estimation of a gamma quantile