Speaker
Glen Cowan
(RHUL)
Description
Plan for Lectures 1 and 2:
- Quick review of probability, frequentist vs. Bayesian approaches
- Parameter estimation, maximum likelihood, asymptotic properties of MLEs
- Hypothesis tests – general formalism, p-values
- Confidence intervals from inversion of test, from likelihood function
- General analysis including nuisance parameters, asymptotics
