Objectives

Statistics is the essence behind data science. It is clearly essential to have a deep understanding of the theory and the methods. This is a prerequisite before following a machine learning course.

 

Syllabus

  • Elements of decision theory: risk, loss, decision rules
  • Optimal decisions, unbiasedness, equivariance, sufficient statistics
  • Pointwise estimator: Z-estimator, M-estimator
  • Asymptotical results: law of large numbers, central limit theorem, consistency, asymptotic normality
  • Maximum likelihood, Fisher information, Kullback Leibler, asymptotic optimality
  • Tests: definitions, the Neyman-Pearson lemma, Uniformly Most Powerful test, p-value, two-sided tests
  • Bayesian framework
  • Non parametric tests

 

Evaluation

 

Langage : English