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 extremal limit theorems, basic statistical analysis, and applications to multivariate extremes, emphasizing the importance of understanding the distribution of maxima.
Explores the Decision Theory Framework in Statistical Theory, viewing statistics as a random game with key concepts like admissibility, minimax rules, and Bayes rules.
Covers topic models, focusing on Latent Dirichlet Allocation, clustering, GMMs, Dirichlet distribution, LDA learning, and applications in digital humanities.