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The document contains extended lecture notes for the STATS204 course on Applied Statistical Inference, taught by Dr. Emma Levi at Technion. It covers key topics including sampling methods, estimation techniques, hypothesis testing, classical tests, regression, correlation, and an introduction to Bayesian inference. Each lecture outlines fundamental concepts and methods essential for understanding statistical inference.

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Statistical Inference - Extended Lecture Notes

Statistical Inference - Extended Lecture Notes

Course: STATS204 - Applied Statistical Inference

Instructor: Dr. Emma Levi

Institution: Technion - Faculty of Industrial Engineering

Semester: Winter 2025

Lecture 1: Introduction

- Definitions: population, sample, parameter, statistic

- Sampling methods: random, stratified, cluster

- Exploratory data analysis

Lecture 2: Estimation

- Point estimation vs interval estimation

- Properties: unbiasedness, consistency, efficiency

- Confidence intervals for means and proportions

Lecture 3: Hypothesis Testing

- Null and alternative hypotheses

- Type I and Type II errors, power of a test

- One-tailed vs two-tailed tests

- p-values and their interpretation

Lecture 4: Classical Tests

- z-test and t-test for means


- Chi-square tests for categorical data

- ANOVA for comparing multiple means

Lecture 5: Regression and Correlation

- Simple linear regression model

- Estimating regression coefficients

- R-squared, residual analysis

- Pearson and Spearman correlation

Lecture 6: Bayesian Inference (Intro)

- Prior, likelihood, and posterior distributions

- Bayes' Theorem

- Applications in modern data analysis

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