Andrew McCormack

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science - Mathematics & Statistical Sciences

Personal Website: https://sites.google.com/view/andrewmccormack/

Contact

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science - Mathematics & Statistical Sciences
Email
mccorma2@ualberta.ca
Address
4-233 University Commons
11308 - 89 Ave NW
Edmonton AB
T6G 2N8

Overview

Area of Study / Keywords

Mathematical Statistics


About

PhD, Duke University (2023)

BSc, University of Toronto (2018)  


Research

Analysis of non-Euclidean and tensor data, algebraic statistics, information geometry, statistical decision theory, machine learning.

Courses

STAT 372 - Mathematical Statistics

Laws of large numbers, weak convergence, some asymptotic results, delta method, maximum likelihood estimation, testing, UMP tests, LR tests, nonparametric methods (sign test, rank test), robustness, statistics and their sensitivity properties, prior and posterior distributions, Bayesian inference, conjugate priors, Bayes estimators. Prerequisites: STAT 266 or STAT 276.


STAT 479 - Time Series Analysis

Stationary series, spectral analysis, models in time series: autoregressive, moving average, ARMA and ARIMA. Smoothing series, computational techniques and computer packages for time series. Prerequisites: STAT 372 and 378. Note: This course may only be offered in alternate years.


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