Lecture September 24th

The plan for the lectures Thursday September 24th is as follows:

• Point estimator  (section 7.1)
• Method of moments (section 7.2.1, pages 312-313)
• Maximum likelihood (section 7.2.2, pages 315-320)
• Bayes estimators (section 7.2.3, pages 330-332)
• Mean squared error (section 7.3.1, pages 330-332)
• Best unbiased estimators (section 7.3.2, pages 334- 339)

Note that much of the material in sections 7.2.1, 7.2.2 and 7.3.1 should be known from earlier courses and will not be covered at the lectures