Nonparametric Inference - STAT 824 - sp 2025

1:15 - 2:30 pm, Tuesday and Thursday, LeConte College 205


Course syllabus



Slides Annotated slides Code from class Topics Supplements
Lec_00_slides.pdf Course overview
Lec_01_slides.pdf Lec_01_slides_annotated.pdf R code CDF estimation
Lec_02_slides.pdf Lec_02_slides_annotated.pdf R code kernel density estimation
Lec_03_slides.pdf Lec_03_slides_annotated.pdf multivariate kernel density estimation
Lec_04_slides.pdf Nadaraya-Watson and local polynomial estimators


LaTex/R Markdown templates: template.tex template.Rmd LaTex_symbols

Homework Topics Due Solutions
hw_01.pdf Hoeffding's inequality, KS test, Brownian bridge, kernel density estimation, Hölder smoothness, higher order kernels, CV for KDE bandwidth selection Tuesday, Feb 4th


The project: Project description.pdf

Project componentTemplateDeadline
Choose topicBefore class Tues, Feb 4th.
Literature review lit_review_template.tex lit_review_template.bibThursday, March 6th by midnight via Blackboard.
Proposal presentation (10 min)presentation_template.tex presentation_template.bibIn class on Thursday, March 27th.
Final presentation (20 min)Last two days of class, April the 22nd and 24th.
Written report written_report_template.tex written_report_template.bib Tuesday, April 29th by midnight via Blackboard.



A few of the books I am using to prep for the course:

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