Inference
Course, Master's level, 2ST120
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Autumn 2026 Autumn 2026, Uppsala, 50%, On-campus, English
- Location
- Uppsala
- Pace of study
- 50%
- Teaching form
- On-campus
- Instructional time
- Daytime
- Study period
- 4 November 2026–17 January 2027
- Language of instruction
- English
- Entry requirements
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120 credits including 90 credits in statistics, or 120 credits including 60 credits in statistics and 30 credits in mathematics and/or computer science
- Selection
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Higher education credits (maximum 285 credits)
- Fees
- If you are not a citizen of a European Union (EU) or European Economic Area (EEA) country, or Switzerland, you are required to pay application and tuition fees.
- First tuition fee instalment: SEK 17,250
- Total tuition fee: SEK 17,250
- Application deadline
- 15 April 2026
- Application code
- UU-26608
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- Registration period
- 7 October 2026–28 October 2026
- Information on registration from the department
About the course
Coverage of the main parametric techniques used in statistical inference. Data reduction. Method of moments, maximum likelihood, and Bayesian point estimation. The Cramer-Rao inequality. Interval estimation. Pivotal quantities. Inversion methods. Principles of deriving tests. Neyman-Pearson lemma. Uniformly most powerful tests. Likelihood ratio tests. Large sample tests. Wald & score tests. Bayesian interval estimation and hypothesis testing.