Estimation theory - unbiased estimators; efficiency; consistency; sufficiency; robustness.  The method of moments.  The method of maximum likelihood.  Bayesian estimation - prior and posterior distributions; Bayes’ theorem; Bayesian significant testing and confidence intervals.  Applications - point and intervals.  Estimations of means, variances, differences between means, etc.  Hypothesis testing theory - test functions; the Neyman - Pearson Lemma; the power function of tests, Likelihood ratio test.  

Course Code: 
STA 413
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Pre-requisite: 
STA 301
Select Programme(s): 
Statistics