Statistics 300A: Theory of Statistics

Fall 2007

Professor Joseph Romano, romano@stanford.edu

Tuesday, Thursday 11:00-12:15 Sequoia Hall, Room 200

Office Hours: 142 Sequoia Hall, scheduled for Tuesday 3-4 and Wednesday 2-3

Teaching Assistants:

The teaching assistants for the course together with their room numbers in Sequoia Hall, phone extensions, email addresses and office hours are as follows:

Feng Zhang, Room 238, Phone 5-5952, zf6234@stanford.edu, Wednesday and Friday 11-12

Texts and background material

The required textbooks are Lehmann and Casella’s “Theory of Point Estimation” and Lehmann and Romano’s “Testing

Statistical Hypotheses”.

Syllabus

For a course syllabus, click here.

Problem Sets

Problem Set 1: (Due Tuesday October 2, at the beginning of class) From TPE, 1.3, 1.5, 1.11, 4.3, 5.15, 5.18, 5.31.. Solutions will be
Problem Set 2: (Due Tuesday, October 9) Solutions are
Problem Set 3: (Due Tuesday, October 16) From TPE Chapter 2: 1.12, 1.22, 2.5, 2.19, 2.25, 4.5, 4.6. Solutions are
Problem Set 4: (Due Tuesday, October 23) From TPE Chapter 3: 1.7, 1.8, 1.10, 1.11, 1.14, 1.16, 1.22. Solutions are

The midterm is officially cancelled. A copy of an old midterm can be downloaded here.

Last year’s midterm can be downloaded here.

Problem Set 5: (Due October 30) From Chapter 4: 1.3, 1.9, 2.4, 2.7, 2.11, 3.1. From Chapter 5: 1.15. Solutions are
Problem Set 6: (Due November 13) From Chapter 5 of the TPE: 1.21, 1.25, 1.26. From Chapter 3 of TSH: 2, 7, 16, 17. Solutions are
Problem Set 7: (Due November 27). From TSH: 3.34, 3.56, 3.58, 4.18, 4.20, 4.25, 5.1. Solutions are
Problem Set 8: (Due December 4) From TSH Chapter 6: 7, 12, 13, 18, 19, 25, 28.

Last year’s final can be downloaded HERE