8.1 Population and Distribution Model 8.2 Maximum Likelihood Estimation 8.3 Asymptotic Properties of MLE 8.4 Method of Moments and Generalized Method of Moments 8.5 Asymptotic Properties of GMM 8.6 Mean Squared Error Criterion 8.7 Best Unbiased Estimators 8.8 Cramer-Rao Lower Bound 8.9 Conclusion
5.1 Random Vectors and Joint Probability Distributions 5.2 Marginal Distributions 5.3 Conditional Distributions 5.4 Independence 5.5 Bivariate Transformation 5.6 Bivariate Normal Distribution 5.7 Expectations and Covariance 5.8 Joint Moment Generating Function 5.9 Implications of Independence on Expectations 5.10 Conditional Expectations 5.11 Conclusion