Syllabus for Statistics 583, Spring 1996

1. Bayesian statistics
   • Approximate posteriors (refs)
   • Bayes factors (refs)
   • Markov chain Monte Carlo (refs)
2. Von Mises functionals and robustness
   • Differentiability concepts (refs)
   • The von Mises expansion (refs)
   • The influence function and qualitative robustness (refs)
   • Asymptotic theory for M-estimators (refs)
3. Resampling plans
   • The jackknife (refs)
   • The bootstrap method (refs)
   • Prepivoting (refs)