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I prepared the following notes to help me stay on topic and be organized. They are not are not a substitute for the textbooks, but they do give a guide to the relevant textbook sections. They contain topics that may not be covered in the lectures, not because they are unimportant, but because time is limited. In the past, some students have complained that it is hard to look up in the notes the information they need to solve problems, and that there is more information than "necessary."

I usually revise these notes immediately before and immediately following the lectures and even later, so while you may want to look them over before the lecture, you may not want to print them out. These revisions are typically to correct typos, and to clarify certain ideas. The date/times in parentheses reflect the most recent upload.

Notes for Lectures:

• Lecture 1
• Lecture 2
• Lecture 3
• Lecture 4
• Lecture 5
• Lecture 6
• Lecture 7
• Lecture 8
• Lecture 9
• Lecture 10
• Lecture 11
• Lecture 12
• Lecture 13
• Lecture 14
• Notes for lectures 15 and 16 are still under development. The content will change.
• Lecture 15
• Lecture 16
• Lecture 17
• Lecture 18
• Lecture 19
• Lecture 20
• Lecture 21
• Lecture 22
• Lecture 23
• Lecture 24
• Lecture 25
• Lecture 26
• Lecture 27

Supplements and Special Topics:

• Notes on using R
• Some sums
• Stirling's approximation
• Simple Random Walk
• Notes on integration
• Some distributions
• Differentiating an integral
• Fréchet-Cramér-Rao Lower Bound
• Consistency of Maximum Likelihood Estimators
• Quick review of linear algebra

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