STA 250

High-dimensional Statistical Inference

Winter, 2008


  • Instructor : Debashis Paul


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    No textbook is required for this course. Lecture notes will be provided.

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    Date
    Lecture Note
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    January 10 Some examples of high dimensional data : (i) image processing; (ii) bioinformatics; (iii) wireless communication ; (iv) econometrics and finance
    January 15 lecture notes 2 Properties of multivariate normal distribution; Exterior differntial forms
    January 17 Computation of Jacobians for various transformations
    January 22 lecture notes 3 Haar measure and Wishart distribution
    January 24 Properties of Wishart distribution
    January 29 lecture notes 4 Tests for a normal mean : Hotelling's T-square statistic
    January 31 Eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the sample covariance matrix
    February 5 lecture notes 5 Estimation of normal mean
    February 7 Estimation of normal mean : shrinkage estimation; James-Stein estimator