Explores the consistency and asymptotic properties of the Maximum Likelihood Estimator, including challenges in proving its consistency and constructing MLE-like estimators.
Explores constructing confidence regions, inverting hypothesis tests, and the pivotal method, emphasizing the importance of likelihood methods in statistical inference.
Covers topic models, focusing on Latent Dirichlet Allocation, clustering, GMMs, Dirichlet distribution, LDA learning, and applications in digital humanities.