1 Monte Carlo Methods in Inference 1.1 Monte Carlo Methods for Estimation 1.1.1 Monte Carlo Estimation and Standard Error 1.1.2 Estimation of MSE 1.2 Estimating a confidence level 1.3 Monte Carlo Methods for Hypothesis Tests 1.4 Empirical Type I error rate 1.4.1 Power of a Test 1.4.2 Power Comparisons 1.5 Application: “Count Five” Test for Equal Variance
1 EM optimization method 1.1 EM algorithm 1.2 Convergence 1.3 Usage in exponential families 1.4 Usage in finite normal mixtures 1.5 Variance estimation 1.5.1 Louis method 1.5.2 SEM algorithm 1.5.3 Bootstrap method 1.5.4 Empirical Information 1.6 EM Variants 1.6.1 Improving the E step 1.6.2 Improving the M step 1.7 Pros and Cons