Kurt Hornik: QFin Statistics 2 Summer Semester 2025
Kurt Hornik: QFin Statistics 2 Summer Semester 2025
Classes
Unit | Date | Time | Location | Topic | Materials | Assignments |
| | | | | | | | Read Rice Chapter 5 |
1 | 2025-03-05 | 12:30-16:00 | D4.0.022 | Limit Theorems; Basic Framework of Statistical Inference | Slides
| Ex 1-9, 11-12, 15-17 | Due: 2025-03-12 23:59 | Read Rice Chapter 8.1-8.5
|
2 | 2025-03-06 | 15:30-19:00 | D5.1.001 | Estimation of Parameters and Fitting of Probability Distributions | Slides
| Ex 18-21, 23-29, 31-34 | Due: 2025-03-19 23:59 | Read Rice Chapter 8.6-8.7
|
3 | 2025-03-13 | 10:00-13:30 | TC.1.01 | Estimation of Parameters and Fitting of Probability Distributions | Slides
| Ex 37-44, 53-54, 56-60 | Due: 2025-03-26 23:59 | Read Rice Chapter 9
|
4 | 2025-03-20 | 10:00-13:30 | TC.1.01 | Testing Hypotheses and Assessing Goodness of Fit | Slides
| Ex 61-63, 65, 67-69, 76-84 | Due: 2025-04-02 23:59 | Read Rice Chapter 11 and 13
|
5 | 2025-03-27 | 10:00-13:30 | D5.1.001 | Comparing Two Samples, Analysis of Categorical Data | Slides
| Ex 85-93, 98, 102, 104, 108, 109, 113, 114-117 | Due: 2025-04-09 23:59 | |
6 | 2025-04-03 | 10:00-13:30 | TC.1.01 | Linear models | Slides
| Ex 119-130 | Due: 2025-04-16 23:59
|
7 | 2025-04-10 | 09:00-15:00 | online | Presentations
|
8 | 2025-04-24 | 10:00-12:00 | TC.0.01 | Finals
|
Assignments
Exercises
Data sets
When submitting homework assignments by email, please use the subject
‘Statistics 2 Unit n Team k’, where n is the number of the
unit and k is the number of your team.
Submit by email to
Margarida Ramos Silva <margarida.ramos.silva@s.wu.ac.at>,
Luis Diego Pena Monge <luis.diego.pena.monge@s.wu.ac.at>
and <Kurt.Hornik@wu.ac.at>, and cc all team members.
Please use Sweave/knitr, and submit both the PDF and the Rnw!
Homework and presentation teams and presentation slots:
1 | Atovmyan, Deskoski, Petronevich, Samaj, Vlad | 12:20-12:40 |
2 | Maurer, Piacentini, Piller, Svetina | 11:00-11:20 |
3 | Herten, Iepure, Maalekji Akkawi, Varszegi | 09:00-09:20 |
5 | Kurmanbekova, Kuzmishin, Mookanay, Tallos, Tuhai | 13:40-14:00 |
6 | Akbarli, Haeussling, Heissenberger, Kindermann, Shabanov | 13:20-13:40 |
7 | Barbaros, Bordei, Dempsey, Kambachekov, Pryshchepa | 11:20-11:40 |
8 | Buechs (†), Gogberashvili, Leiter, Loebbe, O'Hara | 13:00-13:20 |
9 | Crespo Sanchez, Kager, Leischner, Zavacky | 09:40-10:00 |
10 | Borisov, Friedlaender, Fuele, Weissmeier, Zlatanovic | 12:00-12:20 |
11 | Huber, Nagy, Vos, Vyshkovskaia, Zareczky | 09:20-09:40 |
12 | Dazun Cabello, De Pasquale, Limpek, Nigg, Pavic | 10:20-10:40 |
13 | Farkhutdinov, Luptakova, Mikheenkov, Oskina, Swietochowska | 10:00-10:20 |
14 | Korcic, Kovek, Mei, Rapoport, Yago Tortajada | 11:40-12:00 |
Presentation groups and teams:
A | Team 11 (35), Team 12 (55), Team 14 (74), Team 8 (75), Team 6 (96) |
B | Team 3 (30), Team 2 (49), Team 9 (72), Team 5 (95), N.N. (97) |
C | Team 1 (36), N.N. (64), Team 7 (66), Team 13 (94), Team 10 (118) |
Teams submit all 5 problems in their group as homeworks, and present
"their" problem.
Materials
Lecture notes (limit theorems, estimation of parameters and fitting of
probability distributions, testing hypotheses and assessing goodness of
fit, comparing two samples, analysis of categorical data):
PDF
Code
Data sets accompanying Rice (2006) can be downloaded from the
Duxbury Data
Library,
e.g., as
CSV
files.
Literature
John A. Rice (2006),
Mathematical Statistics and Data Analysis (3rd edition).
Brooks Cole, ISBN-10: 0495118680, ISBN-13: 9780495118688.
Felix Abramovich and Ya'acov Ritov (2023),
Statistical Theory: A Concise Introduction, 2nd Edition.
Chapman and Hall/CRC, ISBN 9781439851845.
https://www.routledge.com/Statistical-Theory-A-Concise-Introduction/Abramovich-Ritov/p/book/9781032007458.
Links
Electronic University Calendar (eVVZ)
Setting up R and LATEX
File translated from
TEX
by
TTH,
version 4.16.