Submitted by pergosta on December 18, 2018 - 10:23
The aim is to provide some theory concerning asymptotic methods of statistics and probability with applications to inference problems. Knowledge of measure theory is not needed. Basic convergence concepts and results (with proofs) such as the Lindeberg-Lévy central limit theorem should have been covered in previous courses.
To sign up for the course send an e-mail to per.gosta.andersson@stat.su.se
Submitted by jolanta.pielasz... on March 16, 2018 - 18:12
Course Code:3FNA023 ECTS credits: 5 Level Doctoral course Course contents
The course will cover the following topics:
- an introduction to wavelet analysis
- the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT)
- the Maximal Overlap DWT (MODWT)
- the wavelet variance, covariance, correlation and cross correlation
Submitted by johantykesson on November 6, 2017 - 22:59
Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) is an increasingly popular inference paradigm in applications where traditional (Bayesian or frequentist) inference is difficult because the likelihood function is e.g. computationally costly to evaluate or unavailable in closed, tractab- le form. In the course, we will start by briefly studying traditional Bayesian inference and different kinds of simulation-based inference methods in general.
The course covers some advanced models in machine learning.
The models are analyzed mainly from a Bayesian perspective.
The course is also a master's course on the LiU programme 'Statistics and Machine Learning'.
The course is organized into four topics:
- Graphical Models
- Hidden Markov Models
- Gaussian Process Regression and Classification
- State-space models
Each topic includes lectures, a computer lab and a follow-up seminar.
Submitted by Lars Forsberg on September 8, 2016 - 10:55
The course offers an introduction to financial econometrics for second-cycle studies. It
covers the main parts of the spectrum of quantitative financial economics, discusses
important results in the empirical finance literature, and provides a comprehensive
knowledge to do empirical work in financial practice.
A student who has taken the course should:
- have a solid knowledge about basic themes in financial econometrics;
- know and be able to use concepts and notation that is frequently used in financial
econometrics;
There will be three 3-days gatherings each comprising 18h of lecturing. The first meeting will take place in Växjö, 12-14 October, the second meeting will be held in Stockholm, 5-7 December and the third one is organized in Uppsala, 8-10 February.
Instructors who so far have agreed to participate are Thomas Holgersson, Björn Holmquist, Hans Nyquist, Dietrich von Rosen, Rolf Sundberg and Silvelyn Zwanzig. There will be another three so each meeting will be run by three instructors.
Teacher and examiner: Dan Hedlin, Department of Statistics, Stockholm University. .
Topic
We focus on design-based sampling with the Horvitz-Thompson and the generalised regression estimators. (Advanced Survey Sampling II will go further into model assisted estimation). The main course book is Särndal, Swensson and Wretman (1992); for part I we limit ourselves to Chapters 1-7. Although the focus is on design-based sampling we will put this inferential framework into some wider context.
