Statistical Foundations, Reasoning and Inference

Göran Kauermann is a Professor of Statistics at the Department of Statistics and Chair of the Elite Master’s Program in Data Science at the LMU Munich, Germany. He is a recognized expert in applied statistics. He previously served as Editor-in-Chief of AStA Advances in Statistical Analysis, a journal of the German Statistical Society.Helmut Küchenhoff is a Professor of Statistics at the Department of Statistics and Head of the Statistical Consulting Unit (StaBLab) at the LMU Munich, Germany. He has extensive experience in working on practical statistical projects in science and industry. His teaching focuses on practical work, where students engage in practical projects with real-world problems.Christian Heumann is a Professor at the Department of Statistics, LMU Munich, Germany, where he teaches students in both the Bachelor’s and Master’s programs. His research interests include statistical modeling, computational statistics and methods for missing data, also in connection with causal inference. Recently, he has begun exploring statistical methods in natural language processing.

• Introduction.- Background in Probability.- Parametric Statistical Models.- Maximum Likelihood Inference.- Bayesian Statistics.- Statistical Decisions.- Regression.- Bootstrapping.- Model Selection and Model Averaging.- Multivariate and Extreme Value Distributions.- Missing and Deficient Data.- Experiments and Causality.