8. Exact and Likelihood-based Asymptotic Confidence Intervals

Topics, Class Notes and Code		Assignments and Recommended Readings
Confidence Intervals: Concepts and Goodness Measures Pivotal Quantity Definition and examples How quantity is used to construct CI Steps for Pivotal Quantity-based CI Exact and CLT-based Asymptotic CIs CIs for normal populations and variances Large sample CI for population means and proportions CI Based on Asymptotic Normality Likelihood Ratio Confidence Intervals Notes and code Lecture Note [HTML]		Some Additional Notes on Likelihood Estimations Likelihhod-based Point Estimations: [Part I] [Part II] Likelihood-based Asymptotic Confidence Intervals: [Part I] [Part II] R Functions for Nonlinear Equations uniroot(): Package base uniroot.all(): package rootSolve nleqslv(): package nleqslv A note for mathematical algorithms for solving nonlinear equations: [Link] Written Assignment Guidelines [HTML] Due:Thursday, 3/24/2026