Uniformly most powerful tests. Locally optimal tests. Large sample theory, asymptotically best procedures. Nonparametric methods, Wilcoxon, Fisher-Yates, median tests. Linear models, analysis of variance, regression and correlation.
Course is offered in the spring semester only.
STAT 420 or STAT 700. Multivariate normal, Wishart's and Hotelling's distributions. Tests of hypotheses, estimation. Generalized distance, discriminant analysis. Regression and correlation.