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approval. Special topics designed to meet the needs and interests
of individual students.
STA 6910: Supervised Research (1-5; max: 5) S/U.
STA 6934: Special Topics in Statistics (1-3; max: 12) Prereq:
permission of graduate adviser.
STA 6938: Seminar (1; max: 15) Prereq: departmental approval.
Special topics of an advanced nature suitable for seminar treatment
but not given in regular courses. S/U.
STA 6940: Supervised Teaching (1-5; max: 5) S/U.
STA 6942: Internship (1-3; max: 3) Prereq: STA 6208 or
equivalent and consent of graduate coordinator. Supervised
statistical consulting involving planning and/or analyzing research
data. Whenever possible, student meets with researcher.
Supervision by faculty member or delegated authority and postinternship
report. S/U.
STA 6971: Research for Master's Thesis (1-15) S/U.
STA 7179: Survival Analysis (3) Prereq: STA 6177. Theoretical
introduction to statistical inferential procedures useful for analyzing
randomly right censored failure time data.
STA 7249: Generalized Linear Models (3) Prereq: STA 6207,
6208, 6327, 6246. Fitting of generalized linear models, diagnostics,
asymptotic theory, overdispersion, estimating equations, mixed
models, generalized additive models, smoothing.
STA 7334: Limit Theory (3) Prereq: STA 6467. Review of different
models of convergence. Cramer-Wold device. Multivariate CLT.
Asymptotic theory of empirical distribution and sample quantiles.
Bahadur's representation. Asymptotic theory of sample moments.
Delta method and its multiparameter generalization. Variance
stabilizing transformation. U-statistics: asymptotic theory and its
statistical applications. Hoeffding's decomposition. Asymptotic theory
of maximum likelihood estimation. Wald's consistency theorem for
MLE. Asymptotic normality and efficiency. Asymptotic theory of
GLRTs. Statistical applications: asymptotic theory of categorical
data, linear models, and generalized linear models.
STA 7346: Statistical Inference (3) Prereq: STA 6327. Decision
rules and risk functions. Sufficiency, Minimax, and Bayes rules for
estimating location and scale parameters.
STA 7347: Advanced Inference (3) Prereq: STA 7346. Bayesian
statistical inference. Inference using large samples. Relative
efficiencies of tests and estimates with special reference to Pitman
and Bahadur efficiencies.
STA 7348: Bayesian Theory(3) Prereq: STA 7346 Theory
underlying the Bayesian paradigm. Issues related to selection of
priors; Bayesian interference, both exact and asymptotic; Bayesian
model selection; high-dimensional problems; and Bayesian
robustness.
STA 7466: Probability Theory I (3) Prereq: MAA 5228, 6236, or
equivalent. Measure and probability spaces. Random variables.
Distribution functions. Abstract Lebesgue and Stieltjes integration.
Monotone. Dominated, Cauchy, and mean convergence. Fubini and
Radon-Nikodym theorems. Zero-one laws.