Syllabus for Statistics 582, Winter 1996

1. Asymptotic testing (refs)
2. Philosophy of science and statistics
   • Scientific and statistical inference (refs)
   • The likelihood principle (refs)
   • Sufficiency and ancillarity (refs)
   • Barndorff-Nielsen's formula (refs)
3. Bayesian statistics
   • Basic setup (refs)
   • Approximate posteriors (refs)
   • Bayes factors (refs)
   • Markov chain Monte Carlo (refs)