Theoretical Statistics: Topics for a Core Course

Probability and Measure.- Exponential Families.- Risk, Sufficiency, Completeness, and Ancillarity.- Unbiased Estimation.- Curved Exponential Families.- Conditional Distributions.- Bayesian Estimation.- Large-Sample Theory.- Estimating Equations and Maximum Likelihood.- Equivariant Estimation.- Empirical Bayes and Shrinkage Estimators.- Hypothesis Testing.- Optimal Tests in Higher Dimensions.- General Linear Model.- Bayesian Inference: Modeling and Computation.- Asymptotic Optimality1.- Large-Sample Theory for Likelihood Ratio Tests.- Nonparametric Regression.- Bootstrap Methods.- Sequential Methods.