Middle East Technical University
Department of Statistics
Summer 2013-2014
STAT 291: Statistical Computing I
Instructor : Assoc. Prof. Özlem İLK DAĞ, 134, Department of Statistics
E-mail : , Phone: 210 53 26
Course WEB Page : http://www.metu.edu.tr/~oilk/s291.html
Lecture : Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays 14:00-16:50 Stat. Comp. Lab.
Office Hours: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays 17:00-17:20
Text Book : No particular text book. Portion of the lecture notes will be posted on http://lms.metu.edu.tr regularly. Please download and work through them before the class.
Reference Books:
Main reference:
· İlk, Ö. (2011) R Yazılımına Giriş, ODTÜ Yayincilik.
Supporting references (in alphabetical order):
· Adler, J. (2010) R in a nutshell. O'Reilly Media, Inc. California. [E-copy available at METU]
· Biran, A. and Breiner, M. (1999) MATLAB 5 for Engineers, Addison-Wesley.
· Martinez, W.L. and Martinez, A. R., (2002) Computational Statistics Handbook with MATLAB, Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton.
· Muenchen, R.A. (2009) R for SAS and SPSS Users. Springer Science & Business Media, NY. [E-copy available at METU]
· Part-Enander, E. and Sjöberg, A. (1999) The MATLAB 5 Handbook, Addison-Wesley.
· Teetor, P. (2011) R Cookbook. O'Reilly Media, Inc. California. [E-copy available at METU]
· Teetor, P. (2011) 25 recipes for getting started with R. O'Reilly Media, Inc. California. [E-copy available at METU]
Course Content:
TECHNICAL
· Introduction: installing; preliminaries; basic commands; getting help; saving, storing, retrieving work
· Fundamental operations: mathematical operators; arrays and matrices; loops; data input and output; random number generation; data manipulation; subsetting the data set
· Writing our own functions
STATISTICAL
· Descriptive statistics: e.g. graphical representation of data; measures of central tendency; measures of dispersion
· Statistical inference: estimation; assumption checking; hypothesis testing
· Regression analysis
· Analysis of variance
Computing: We will use R and MATLAB.
Grading:
2 Midterm Exams : 30 pts each
Final Exam : 40 pts
Students who miss only one of the exams can take a make-up exam if they have a valid reason and a supporting document. The makeup exam will be comprehensive and shortly after the final exam. Students who miss one of the exams and make-up will receive an NA grade. Makeup exam will not be similar to the exam that student missed. There are no resit exams during summer school.
Do’s and Don’ts:
· You are expected to attend all classes and exams.
· No matter what the situation is, I have ZERO tolerance for plagiarizing (cheating). If one chooses to copy others’ work, s\he chooses grade over learning and is unfair to her\his classmates. There will be legal consequences.
· Please do not have last minute requests. Especially, don’t try to contact me right before exams.
· Please respect my schedule. For discussions and questions, come during my office hours.
· Check your emails, online system & course web page frequently. I may contact you via these sources on subjects concerning class.
· Please don’t place any calls to my cell or home phones.
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