Lecture 11: Properties of Estimators
October 8th, 2024 (6th week of classes)Read and watch everything
Properties of estimators
This lecture has three main goals:
To strengthen your knowledge and intuition about statistics.
To help you understand, through the case of standard deviation, the work statisticians do, so that you can trust the ‘standard statistics’—the ones most commonly used—that you will apply throughout your professional careers.
To provide insight into how other statistical frameworks that we will cover in BIOL322 were developed. While we won’t revisit all sample estimators, the principles demonstrated with standard deviation can be generalized to most sample statistics.
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