Statistical Inference 2019

A reference about distributions: Johnson, Kotz amd 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 03
  • The negative binomial distribution


• October 11
  • Inference of normal distribution through maximum likelihood
    I added some ideas of Eloísa Díaz-Frances such as symmetric reparametrization.


• November 19
  • Parametric bootstrap estimation of a gamma quantile