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Asymptotic Statistics, fall 2024

Course schedule

Lec Date Topic Material Exercises Remarks
1 11/9 Modes of stochastic convergence, Portmanteau lemma, continuous mapping theorem Book: Ch. 1, Sec. 2.1 (up to and including thm 2.3)
Syllabus: Sec. 1.1 (up to and including thm 1.7)
1.1, 1.2, 1.3(i), 1.4, 1.10, 1.15

18/9
--CLASS CANCELLED--



2 25/9 Tightness, Prohorov's theorem, Helly's lemma Book: Sec. 2.1 (up to and including ex 2.6)
Syllabus: Sec. 1.1 (up to and including ex 1.10)
1.7, 1.12, 1.23, 1.25, 1.17, 1.19, 1.21
3 2/10 Relations between modes of convergence, Slutsky, stochastic O() and o() Book: Sec. 2.1 (rest) and sec. 2.2
Syllabus: Sec. 1.1 (rest)
1.11, 1.31, 1.32, 1.24, 1.29(i)
4 9/10 Multivariate random variables, marginal normality, covariance matrix with properties, definition multivariate normal distribution Syllabus: Sec. 2.1, 2.2 (up to and including lemma 2.3) 1.20, 2.1, 2.2, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.9 (correct: the second 'independent' is 'uncorrelated'), 2.12
5 16/10 Multivariate normal distribution and one-dimensional projections, normality under linear mapping, multivariate central limit theorem, distribution of squared norm of a normally distributed vector, Chi-squared distribution Syllabus: Sec. 2.2 (rest), Sec. 2.3, 2.4 2.3, 2.8, 2.13, 2.14, 2.10, 2.15, 2.16
6 23/10 Asymptotic distribution of Cn-statistic in multinomial testing, example of the Delta method Syllabus: Sec. 2.5, Sec. 3.1 (up to thm 3.1) 2.17, 2.18, 2.19, 2.20, 2.23(i), 3.1

30/10
MIDTERM EXAM





7 6/11 Delta method, more examples of the delta method Book: Sec. 3.1
Syllabus: Sec. 3.1
3.1, 3.2, 3.3
8 13/11 Variance stabilising transformations, method of moments, asymptotic distribution of moment estimator, setting for M- and Z-estimation Book: Sec. 3.2, 4.1
Syllabus: Sec, 3.2, 3.3
3.11, 3.12, 3.15
9 20/11 M-estimators (general definition, MLE, M-estimators of location), Z-estimators Book: Sec. 5.1
Syllabus: Introductory remarks of Ch. 4 (up to sec. 4.1)
3.14, 3.16, 3.18
10 27/11 Consistency of M-estimators and of Z-estimators, Glivenko-Cantelli property, alternative consistency conditions for Z-estimators, asymptotic normality (property), an introduction to asymptotic normality Book: Sec. 5.2 (up to subsec. 5.2.1)
Syllabus: Sec. 4.1
3.19, 3.20

11 4/12 Asymptotic normality again, asymptotic normality of Z-estimators, asymptotic relative efficiency Book: Sec. 5.3
Syllabus: Sec. 4.2
4.1, 4.2, 4.4, 4.10, 4.11, 4.17
12 11/12 Maximum likelihood estimation, Fisher information and Cramer-Rao, asymptotic optimality, model mis-specification Book: Sec. 5.5
Syllabus: Sec. 4.3
4.18, 4,21, 4.22, 4.19, 4,20, 4.23



22/1/25
FINAL EXAM 14:00-17:00
-- -- SP L1.02

19/2/25  
RESIT EXAM 14:00-17:00
-- -- SP A1.06