18  Wrapping Up

Settling In


End-of-Course Survey

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What’s next in MATH/STAT 355?

  • Quiz 6: Monday, May 4 (last day of class!)

    • Third attempt at any topics you have not yet passed
    • Encourage you to participate even if you are happy with current quiz scores – will be good practice for final!

  • Cumulative Final Exam: Saturday, May 9, 8–10 am

    • Topics: Estimation, Properties of Estimators, Inference
      • Review the learning objectives on your feedback spreadsheet (Quizzes tab) for details!
    • Grading: review Syllabus
    • Study Tips:
      • Continue working on the collaborative study guide
      • Concepts:
        • Go back through notes and highlight all definitions.
        • For each definition: Re-write the definition (on paper, without notes, more than once). Ask yourself: what does each word, piece of notation, etc. mean and why is it necessary? Explain the definition out loud to someone else.
        • Make concepts maps to show how everything connects, both within and between topics.
      • Derivations:
        • Look back at example videos, in-class practice problems, problem sets, quizzes, and quiz review problems. Make a list of the types of questions that arose and the techniques we used to solve them.
        • Build a “toolkit” for each type of problem.
        • Re-do the problems (on paper, without notes, more than once).
      • Come to Office Hours!
      • Additional Resources:


What’s next in Statistical Theory?

There is more to Statistical Theory than we had time to explore this semester. Other important topics include:

  • Other properties of estimators
  • Other asymptotic results
  • Decision theory
  • Empirical processes
  • Non- and semi-parametric estimation and inference
  • Measure theory
  • …

With that said, we’ve covered a lot of the big ideas! If you take a course in Stat Theory in grad school, you’ll cover many of the same topics that we covered in this class (just faster, and in more depth).


Thank You!

Thanks for a great semester! 😃