===== 5 - Estimating Probabilities ======

February 25th, 2010.

=== Slides ===

[[cos424>slides/5-stat.pdf|PDF]] [[cos424>slides/5-stat.djvu|DJVU]]

=== Scribe Notes ===


[[cos424>slides/5-notes-persaud.pdf|Nicholas Persaud]]

=== Summary ===

   * Estimating probabilities and densities.
   * Maximum Likelihood
   * Comparing estimators
   * Classical approach: unbiased estimators
   * Bayesian approach: priors
   * Putting them together!

=== Readings ===

   * (optional) Efron & Morris: //[[cos424>papers/Efron1977.pdf|Stein's Paradox in Statistics]]//. Scientific American 236(5):119–127, 1977.