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1.9 Moments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44<br />
1.9.1 Moment generating functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50<br />
1.9.2 Marginal distributions and the MGF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53<br />
1.9.3 Vector notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54<br />
1.9.4 Properties <strong>of</strong> variance matrices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56<br />
1.10 The multivariable normal distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57<br />
1.10.1 The multivariate normal MGF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64<br />
1.10.2 Independence and normality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65<br />
1.11 Limit Theorems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71<br />
1.11.1 Convergence <strong>of</strong> random variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71<br />
2 Statistical Inference 77<br />
2.1 Basic definitions and terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77<br />
2.2 Minimum Variance Unbiased Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81<br />
2.3 Methods Of Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94<br />
2.3.1 Method Of Moments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94<br />
2.3.2 Maximum Likelihood Estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97<br />
2.4 Hypothesis Tests and Confidence Intervals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105