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 | | Sampling theory and its critique, subjective probability, likelihood principles, Bayes theorem, Bayesian analysis of Normal theory inference problems, the Behrens-Fisher problem, assessment of model assumptions, robustness of inference, analysis of variance, estimation of variance components, empirical Bayes, some aspects of multivariate problems. |
 | | Conditioning, distribution theory, approximation to distributions, modes of convergence, limit theorems, statistical models, parameter estimation, comparison of estimators, confidence sets, theory of hypothesis tests, introduction to Bayesian inference and nonparametric estimation. |
 | | Elements of probability, important discrete distributions, acceptance sampling by attributes, sample characteristics, probability distributions and population characteristics, the normal distribution, acceptance sampling plans based on sample means and variances, sampling from the normal, the central limit theorem, point and interval estimation. |
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