Stat 135: Concepts of Statistics
UC Berkeley, Spring 2026
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Schedule
Week 1
| Jan 21: | Lecture 1 Overview | Syllabus Diagnostic Test |
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| Jan 23: | Lecture 2 Introduction to Survey Sampling (7.1, 7.2) |
Week 2
| Jan 26: | Lecture 3 Inference in Survey Sampling (7.3) | Homework 1 |
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| Jan 27: | Lab 1 Lab 1: Review of Probability and R | Probability Theory Refresher R Introduction |
| Jan 28: | Lecture 4 Confidence Intervals for Population Parameters (7.3) | |
| Jan 30: | Lecture 5 Method of Moments Estimation (8.2 - 8.4) |
Week 3
| Feb 2: | Lecture 6 More about Estimators, and Mathematical Digressions | Homework 2 |
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| Feb 3: | Lab 2 Lab 2 | Lab 2 Exercises Lab 2 Rmd |
| Feb 4: | Lecture 7 Computing Standard Errors of MoM Estimators (8.4) | |
| Feb 6: | Lecture 8 Computing Standard Errors, continued |
Week 4
| Feb 9: | Lecture 9 The Bootstrap and introducing Maximum Likelihood Estimation (8.5.1) | Homework 3 |
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| Feb 10: | Lab 3 Lab 3 | Lab 3 File Lab 3 Qmd |
| Feb 11: | Lecture 10 Maximum Likelihood Estimation (8.5) | |
| Feb 12: | Quiz 1 (Feb 12 AND 13 at the CBTF) Survey Sampling and Method of Moments | |
| Feb 13: | Lecture 11 MLEs for the Multinomial distribution (8.5.1) |
Week 5
| Feb 16: | Holiday Presidents' Day | Homework 4 |
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| Feb 17: | Lab 4 Lab 4 | Lab 4 Exercises Lab 4 Rmd |
| Feb 18: | Lecture 12 MSE and Consistency | |
| Feb 20: | Lecture 13 Consistency of the MLE (8.5.2) |
Week 6
| Feb 23: | Lecture 14 Asymptotic Distribution of the MLE (8.5.2) | Homework 5 |
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| Feb 24: | Lab 5 Lab 5 | Lab 5 Exercises Lab 5 Rmd |
| Feb 25: | Lecture 15 Proof of Asymptotic Normality, and Confidence Intervals (8.5.2, 8.5.3) | |
| Feb 26: | Quiz 2 (Feb 26 AND 27 at the CBTF) Maximum Likelihood Estimators | |
| Feb 27: | Lecture 16 Confidence Intervals from MLEs, and Efficiency (8.7) |
Week 7
| Mar 2: | Lecture 17 Proof of Cramér-Rao Inequality/Lower Bound | |
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| Mar 3: | Lab 6 Lab 6 | Lab 6 Exercises |
| Mar 4: | Lecture 18 Sufficiency, and the Factorization Theorem | |
| Mar 6: | Lecture 19 Proof of the Factorization theorem and the Rao-Blackwell Theorem |
Week 8
| Mar 9: | Lecture 20 Proof of the Rao-Blackwell Theorem and Properties of Estimators | |
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| Mar 10: | Lab 7 Lab 7 | Lab 7 Exercises |
| Mar 11: | Lecture 21 Introducing Hypotheses Tests | |
| Mar 11: | Midterm 1 (7-9pm PT on Mar 11 at the VLSB 2050) Chapters 7 (7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.6) and 8 (8.1 - 8.5, 8.7, and part of 8.8, 8.9) of the text, not including section 8.6. | |
| Mar 13: | Lecture 22 An Example of a Hypothesis Test using the Likelihood Ratio |
Week 9
| Mar 16: | Lecture 23 The Neyman-Pearson Lemma | |
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| Mar 17: | Lab 8 Lab 8 | Lab 8 Exercises |
| Mar 18: | Lecture 24 | |
| Mar 20: | Lecture 25 |
Week 10
| Mar 23: | Holiday Spring Break | Homework 6 (Due Mon Apr 6) |
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| Mar 24: | Holiday Spring Break | |
| Mar 25: | Holiday Spring Break | |
| Mar 27: | Holiday Spring Break |
Week 11
| Mar 30: | Lecture 26 | |
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| Mar 31: | Lab 9 Lab 9 | Lab 9 Exercises |
| Apr 1: | Lecture 27 | |
| Apr 3: | Lecture 28 |
Week 12
| Apr 6: | Lecture 29 Generalized Likelihood Ratio Test for the Multinomial Model | Homework 7 (Due Mon Apr 13) |
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| Apr 7: | Lab 10 Lab 10 | Lab 10 Exercises |
| Apr 8: | Lecture 30 Hypotheses Tests for Categorical Data | |
| Apr 9: | Quiz 3 (Apr 9 AND 10 at the CBTF) Hypothesis Testing (Chapters 9.1-9.5) | |
| Apr 10: | Lecture 31 Fisher's Exact Test |
Week 13
| Apr 13: | Lecture 32 Chi-square Test of Homogeneity | Homework 8 (Due Mon Apr 20) |
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| Apr 14: | Lab 11 Lab 11 | Lab 11 Exercises |
| Apr 15: | Lecture 33 Chi-square Test of Independence | |
| Apr 17: | Lecture 34 Matched-Pair Designs |
Week 14
| Apr 20: | Lecture 35 Two sample tests - The t-test | Homework 9 (Due Mon Apr 27) |
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| Apr 21: | Lab 12 Lab 12 | Lab 12 Exercises Lab 12 Rmd |
| Apr 22: | Lecture 36 Two sample tests - Power computations | |
| Apr 24: | Lecture 37 Two sample tests - Nonparametric Tests |
Week 15
| Apr 27: | Lecture 38 Two sample tests - Continuing Nonparametric Tests | Homework 10 (Due Tue May 5) |
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| Apr 28: | Lab 13 Lab 13 | Lab 13 Exercises Lab 13 Rmd |
| Apr 29: | Lecture 39 | |
| Apr 30: | Quiz 4 (Apr 30 AND May 1 at the CBTF) Tests on categorical data; Tests on two independent samples; Power Computation | |
| May 1: | Lecture 40 |
Week 16
| May 5: | Lab 14 Lab 14 | Lab 14 Exercises |
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| May 8: | Lecture 41 Review Section (TBD) |
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