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Statistical Theory: Inference and Sufficiency

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MATH-442: Statistical theory

This course gives a mostly rigourous treatment of some statistical methods outside the context of standard likelihood theory. ...

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This lecture covers statistical models, point estimation, and the problem of inference. It discusses the concepts of sufficiency, ancillarity, and completeness in statistics, emphasizing the importance of sufficient and minimally sufficient statistics. The lecture also explores the Fisher-Neyman Factorization Theorem and Basu's Theorem, highlighting the role of complete statistics in data reduction and independence of statistics.

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Yoav Zemel

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Statistical inference: Mathematical statistics

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Sufficient statistic

In statistics, a statistic is sufficient with respect to a statistical model and its associated unknown parameter if "no other statistic that can be calculated from the same sample provides any additional information as to the value of the parameter". In particular, a statistic is sufficient for a family of probability distributions if the sample from which it is calculated gives no additional information than the statistic, as to which of those probability distributions is the sampling distribution.

Statistical inference

Statistical inference is the process of using data analysis to infer properties of an underlying distribution of probability. Inferential statistical analysis infers properties of a population, for example by testing hypotheses and deriving estimates. It is assumed that the observed data set is sampled from a larger population. Inferential statistics can be contrasted with descriptive statistics. Descriptive statistics is solely concerned with properties of the observed data, and it does not rest on the assumption that the data come from a larger population.

Completeness (statistics)

In statistics, completeness is a property of a statistic in relation to a parameterised model for a set of observed data. A complete statistic T is one for which any proposed distribution on the domain of T is predicted by one or more prior distributions on the model parameter space. In other words, the model space is 'rich enough' that every possible distribution of T can be explained by some prior distribution on the model parameter space. In contrast, a sufficient statistic T is one for which any two prior distributions will yield different distributions on T.

Estimation theory

Estimation theory is a branch of statistics that deals with estimating the values of parameters based on measured empirical data that has a random component. The parameters describe an underlying physical setting in such a way that their value affects the distribution of the measured data. An estimator attempts to approximate the unknown parameters using the measurements.

Statistics

Statistics (from German: Statistik, () "description of a state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a scientific, industrial, or social problem, it is conventional to begin with a statistical population or a statistical model to be studied. Populations can be diverse groups of people or objects such as "all people living in a country" or "every atom composing a crystal".

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