This two week warm up camp is designed to help prepare incoming grad students for the coming year. I am teaching the Statistics section. I will post the notes to my lectures as I give them.

• Statistics Lecture One (pdf)
  • Basic ideas about estimation
  • Method of Moments
  • Maximum Likelihood
  • Confidence Intervals
  • Introduction to the Bootstrap
  • Exercises
• Simulation with R (pdf)
  • Exercises
  • Sample Code for exercises
• Statistics Lecture Two (pdf)
  • Large Sample Theory for MLE
  • Uncertainty
  • Hypothesis Testing
  • Exercises
• Statistics Lecture Three (pdf) - Linear Models
  • The Theory
  • Practical Use
  • How to do it in R
  • An example
  • Extensions
  • Exercises