Daniel Etaat

Statistics · Columbia

Courses and resources

Teaching

Lecture notes and teaching experience at Columbia and UC Berkeley.

Open resource

Lecture notes

STAT GR6201

Theoretical Statistics I

Columbia University

Lecture notes covering sufficiency and completeness, unbiased estimation, decision theory, asymptotics, the Bernstein–von Mises theorem, and hypothesis testing.

Teaching assistantships

Courses I’ve TA’d for

STAT GR5703

Statistical Inference and Modeling

Teaching Assistant · Columbia University

Fundamentals of statistical inference and modeling, including the EM algorithm, MCMC and Bayesian modeling, linear and generalized linear models, nonparametric regression, and statistical computing.

  • Spring 2026

STAT UN3105

Applied Statistical Methods

Teaching Assistant · Columbia University

Practical statistical methods beyond linear regression and categorical data analysis.

  • Fall 2025

MATH 10A

Methods of Mathematics: Calculus, Statistics, and Combinatorics

Discussion Teaching Assistant · UC Berkeley

The first course in a life-sciences mathematics sequence, covering single-variable calculus, ordinary differential equations, matrix algebra, and systems of linear equations.

Teaching award

Recognition

2024

Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award

UC Berkeley

Awarded annually to approximately 60 graduate instructors.