| 36-788, Spring 2015 Class Schedule | Date | Lecture Topic | Readings | Scribe Notes | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue Oct 27 | Introduction and basic reduction scheme. | [T]: 2.1, 2.2 | ||
| Thu Oct 29 | Various distances between probability measures, two-hypotheses argument and LeCam Lemma. | [T]: 2.3, 2.4 | ||
| Tue Nov 3 | Examples of LeCam Lemma and Fano. | [T]: 2.7.1 | HW is out. | |
| Thu Nov 5 | More on Fano. Yang and Baron (1999). | |||
| Tue Nov 10 | Le Cam Equation, Metric Entropy for Holder classes and nonparametric least squares. | |||
| Thu Nov 12 | Minimax rate for non-parametric regression and Assouad Lemma. | [T]: 2.6.1 and 2.7.2. | ||
| Tue Nov 17 | Minimax confidence balls in the normal means problem. | |||
| Thu Nov 19 | Minimax hypothesis testing and combinatorial testing problems. | |||
| Tue Nov 24 | Students presentations: Jisu Kim and Yining Wang | |||
| Thu Nov 26 | Thanksgiving (no class) | |||
| Tue Dec 1 | Students presentations: Kirthevasan Kandasamy and Veeranjaneyulu Sadhanala | |||
| Thu Dec 3 | Students presentations: Jerzy Wieczorek and Lingxue Zhu | |||
| Tue Dec 8 | Students presentations: Chun-Liang Li and Shashank Singh | |||
| Thu Dec 10 | Students presentations: Alnur Ali and Alden Green | |||