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Course material for USC PM522b Statistical Inference and USC PM569 Spatial Statistics.

Statistical Inference:

Course text Casella and Berger Statistical Inference, 2nd ed. 2002

• Slides 1: Random sampling, sampling distributions, order statistics.
• Slides 2: Sufficiency principle (sufficient, minimal sufficient, complete sufficient statistics), ancillary statistics, Basu's Theorem, Likelihood principle.
• Slides 3: Methods for finding point estimators including maximum likelihood, numerical methods for maximum likelihood, moment generating functions, method of moments.
• Slides 4: Evaluating estimators -- bias, MSE, MVUE
• Slides 5: Hypothesis testing and interval estimation
• Slides 6: Asymptotic evaluations -- consistency, effeciency, robustness, asymptotic LRT, asymptotic interval estimates, bootstrap.
• Slides 7: ANOVA and linear regression

Spatial Statistics:

• Introduction
• Geostatistics 1
• Geostatistics 2
• Geostatistics 3
• Areal 1
• Areal 2
• Point pattern 1
• Point pattern 2