Topics in Advanced Statistical Inference

Required Text: In All Likelihood: Statistical Modelling and Inference Using Likelihood by
Yudi Pawitan, 2001, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ISBN: 0-19-850765-8

Schedule, Reading and Presentation Assignments
 
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 1 Monday, 8/29 Chapter 1 JDG and TEO
 2 Wednesday, 9/7 Sections 2.1 - 2.5 JDG
 3 Monday, 9/12 Sections 2.6 - 2.10 TEO
 4 Monday, 9/19 Sections 3.1 - 3.5 Haiping (1), Denis (2), Sree (3), Yaohua (4), Jin (5)
 5 Monday, 9/26 Sections 4.1 - 4.5 Jin (1), Yaohua (2), Sree (3), Denis (4), Haiping (5)
 6 Monday, 10/3 Sections 4.6 - 4.11 Sree (6 & 7), Haiping (8), Yaohua (9), Jin (10), Denis (11)
 7 Wednesday, 10/12 Sections 5.1 - 5.5 Wang (1), Sree (2), Denis (3), Jin (4), Haiping (5)
 8 Monday, 10/17 Sections 5.6 - 5.10 Denis (6), Jin (7), Haiping (8), Wang (9), Sree (10)
 9 Monday, 10/24 Sections 6.1 - 6.5 Haiping (1), Sree (2), Jin (3), Denis (4), Wang (5)
10 Wednesday, 11/2 Sections 6.6 - 6.9 Sree (6a), Jin (6b), Denis (7), Haiping (8), Wang (9)
11 Monday, 11/7 Chapter 7 Haiping (3), Denis (4), Sree (5), Yaohua (6) and Jin (7)
12 Monday, 11/14 Sections 8.1 - 8.7 Jin (1 & 2), Yaohua (3), Sree (4), Denis (5), [skip 6], Haiping (7)
13 Monday, 11/21 no class - thanksgiving xxxxx
14 Monday, 11/28 Sections 9.1 - 9.7 Denis (1), Yaohua (2), Sree (3), Jin (4 & 5), Haiping (6 & 7)
15 Monday, 12/5 Sections 9.8 - 9.12 Denis (8 - overview only), Sree (9),  Haiping (10), Yaohua (11), Jin (12)

SPlus (R) and SAS Programs etc.
Exercise 2.16 on p.51 SPlus and SAS programs (corrected)
SAS program to create contour plot for Normal(mu,sigsq)
SAS program to create contour plot for Trinomial(p1,p2) and madeup data
SAS program to create profile plot for p2 in Trinomial madeup data

SAS program to find SEs and profile likelihood for exercise 3.14 (p.70)
SAS program to simulate data and find PLCI for exercise 4.4 (p.108)
SAS program to find PLCI for exercise 4.41 (pp.114-5)
SAS program for exercise 6.27 (p.192)
SAS program to complete exercises 9.10 and 9.11 Intraclass correlation
SAS program for heritability

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