This paper is designed to familiarize the students with concept of statistical inference which include estimation theory.
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STT-401 |
Statistical Inference |
CO 39: Able to conduct hypothesis test about population mean and proportion.
CO 40: Able to obtain the point estimator and interval estimator of the parameters.
CO 41: Able to construct and interpret a confidence interval about the population and variances.
CO 42: Students will learn to apply non - parametric test such as run test, sign test and median test. |
Approach in teaching: Interactive Lectures, Group Discussion, Classroom Assignment Problem Solving Sessions
Learning activities for the students: Assignments Seminar Presentation Subject based Activities |
Classroom Quiz Assignments Class Test Individual Presentation |
Large Sample Test of Significance: Testing of significance for attributes and variables, tests of significance for single mean, standard deviation and proportions, tests of significance for difference between two means, standard deviations and proportions.
Theory of Estimation: Point Estimation: problems of point estimation, properties of a good point estimator- unbiasedness, consistency, efficiency & sufficiency.-factorization theorem (without proof) and it applications.
Concept of mean square error, Minimum Variance Unbiased Estimation, Cramer Rao Inequality, Rao-Blackwell Theorem (Without proof) and Lehman scheffe theorm (Without proof). Idea of most powerful test, uniformly most powerful test, randomized and non randomized test.
Methods of point estimation: Method of Maximum Likelihood and its properties of MLEs (without proof). Methods of Moments: Least Squares method. Interval Estimation: Concept, confidence interval, confidence coefficient, construction of confidence interval for population mean, variance, difference of population mean when standard deviation are known and unknown of Normal Distribution.
Neyman Pearson Lemma and its application for finding BCR. BCR in case of Binomial, Poisson and of Normal and Exponential Populations. Non Parametric Tests: Definition merits and limitations, Sign test for univariate and bivariate distributions, Run test and Median test for small and large samples.