Statistics · Course 02

Readings

Probability, mathematical inference and experimental design.

Readings are listed by session. Core textbooks for the whole course are listed at the end.

Lecture 1: Probability Models, Random Variables, and Expectation

Casella and Berger, Statistical Inference; DeGroot and Schervish, Probability and Statistics; Wasserman, All of Statistics.

Lecture 2: Probability Distributions and Multivariate Models

Casella and Berger, Statistical Inference; DeGroot and Schervish, Probability and Statistics; Anderson, An Introduction to Multivariate Statistical Analysis.

Lecture 3: Sampling Distributions and Asymptotic Theory

van der Vaart, Asymptotic Statistics; Casella and Berger, Statistical Inference; Efron and Tibshirani, An Introduction to the Bootstrap.

Lecture 4: Point Estimation: Moments, Likelihood, and Optimality

Casella and Berger, Statistical Inference; Lehmann and Casella, Theory of Point Estimation; van der Vaart, Asymptotic Statistics.

Lecture 5: Confidence Intervals and Hypothesis Testing

Casella and Berger, Statistical Inference; Lehmann and Romano, Testing Statistical Hypotheses; Wasserstein and Lazar, “The ASA Statement on p-Values.”

Lecture 6: Bayesian Inference, Conjugacy, and Posterior Computation

Gelman et al., Bayesian Data Analysis; Robert, The Bayesian Choice; McElreath, Statistical Rethinking.

Lecture 7: Experimental Design, Randomization, and Blocking

Montgomery, Design and Analysis of Experiments; Fisher, The Design of Experiments; Imbens and Rubin, Causal Inference for Statistics, Social, and Biomedical Sciences.

Lecture 8: ANOVA, Linear Contrasts, and Multiple Comparisons

Montgomery, Design and Analysis of Experiments; Hsu, Multiple Comparisons; Kutner et al., Applied Linear Statistical Models.

Lecture 9: Linear Regression and Generalized Linear Models

McCullagh and Nelder, Generalized Linear Models; Agresti, Foundations of Linear and Generalized Linear Models; Dobson and Barnett, An Introduction to Generalized Linear Models.

Lecture 10: Nonparametric Inference, Rank Tests, and Resampling

Hollander, Wolfe, and Chicken, Nonparametric Statistical Methods; Wasserman, All of Nonparametric Statistics; Efron and Tibshirani, An Introduction to the Bootstrap.

Lecture 11: Statistical Power, Sample Size, and Equivalence

Cohen, Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences; Chow et al., Sample Size Calculations in Clinical Research; Lakens, Equivalence Tests.

Lecture 12: Linear Mixed Models and Hierarchical Data

Pinheiro and Bates, Mixed-Effects Models in S and S-PLUS; Gelman and Hill, Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models; McCulloch et al., Generalized, Linear, and Mixed Models.

Lecture 13: Multivariate Analysis: PCA, Covariance, and Dimension Reduction

Jolliffe and Cadima, “Principal Component Analysis: A Review and Recent Developments”; Johnson and Wichern, Applied Multivariate Statistical Analysis; Anderson, An Introduction to Multivariate Statistical Analysis.

Lecture 14: Statistical Modeling Workflow, Simulation, and Reproducibility

Gentle, Elements of Computational Statistics; Boos and Stefanski, Essential Statistical Inference; Peng, “Reproducible Research in Computational Science”; National Academies, Reproducibility and Replicability in Science.

Core textbooks

Casella and Berger, Statistical Inference; Lehmann and Romano, Testing Statistical Hypotheses; van der Vaart, Asymptotic Statistics; Gelman et al., Bayesian Data Analysis; Montgomery, Design and Analysis of Experiments; McCullagh and Nelder, Generalized Linear Models.