Statistical Method in Economics

Calendar

Ses #	Topics	Key Dates
1	Introduction, Probabilistic Concepts, Normal Distribution
2	Limit Theorems	Problem Set 1 Assigned
3	Samples, Statistics, Sample Distributions
4	Sufficient Statistics	Problem Set 1 Due Problem Set 2 Assigned
5	Point Estimators, Method of Moments
6	Efficient Estimators, Rao-Cramer Bound	Problem Set 2 Due Problem Set 3 Assigned
7	Large Sample Properties of Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE)
8	Testing Concepts	Problem Set 3 Due Problem Set 4 Assigned
9	Testing, Uniformly Most Powerful (UMP) Tests, Neyman-Pearson Lemma
10	Large Sample Tests	Problem Set 4 Due Problem Set 5 Assigned
11	Confidence Sets Construction
12	Bayesian Concepts	Problem Set 5 Due Problem Set 6 Assigned
13	No Lectures	Midterm Exam Problem Set 6 Due