Syllabus

Theory and Methods of Estimation and Hypothesis testing, Sufficiency, Exponential family, Bayesian methods, Moment methods, Maximum likelihood estimation, Criteria for estimators, UMVUE, Large sample theory: Consistency; asymptotic normality, Confidence intervals, Elements of hypothesis testing; Neyman-Pearson Theory, UMP tests, Likelihood ratio and related tests, Large sample tests

Suggested References:

1. George Casella and Roger L Berger: Statistical Inference
2. Peter J Bickel and Kjell A Doksum: Mathematical Statistics
3. Erich L Lehmann and George Casella: Theory of Point Estimation
4. Erich L Lehmann and Joseph P Romano: Testing Statistical Hypotheses

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