Pranab K. Sen is the Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Biostatistics and Professor of Statistics and Operations Research at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author or co-author of numerous textbooks in statistics and biostatistics, and editor or co-editor of numerous volumes in the same field. He has more than 600 publications in leading statistics journals and has supervised 83 doctoral students. Sen is a Fellow of both the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association. In 2002 he was Senior Noether Awardee for his lifelong contributions to nonparametrics and received the Commemoration Medal from the Czech Union of Physicists and Mathematicians in 1998.
1. Motivation and basic tools
2. Estimation theory
3. Hypothesis testing
4. Elements of statistical decision theory
5. Stochastic processes: an overview
6. Stochastic convergence and probability inequalities
7. Asymptotic distributions
8. Asymptotic behavior of estimators and tests
9. Categorical data models
10. Regression models
11. Weak convergence and Gaussian processes.
