Statistical Models, 2010-2011
Lecturer: dr. ir. Mark van de Wiel
Assistants: Gwénaël Leday, Msc
Credit points: 6
Time of lectures: Tuesday, 13.30-15.15
Location of lectures: WN M632 / WN MS624 (from Nov 2)
Material: Lecture notes "Statistical Models", by dr.
M.C.M. de Gunst.
Examination: practical exercises and written
exam
The statistical package that will be used in this course is R.
This can be downloaded
from the internet, together with a manual. Also see the beginners
manual (in Dutch) based on the original manual for Splus
written by A.W. van der Vaart and "translated to R" by M.A. Jonker.
Course schedule.
Homework+th. exerc: printed
version,
in box Gwénaël Leday, staff room.
Solutions
of
exercises to be handed over before the last Thursday before the
exercise class. Deadlines: 30/9 [1], 28/10 [2], 18/11 [3], 7/12 [4].
Homework to be solved
in groups of 2 (max).
Lecture 1: Slides, theoretical exercise, home
work, coffee data
Lecture 2: Slides, simulation
code Chapter 1
Lecture 3: Slides, theoretical exercise, home
work, optical data .
Lecture 4: Slides
Lecture 5: Slides, theoretical exercise, home
work, birth weight data, some auxiliary R code (nb not all auxiliary code is relevant for the 2009 exercise)
Lecture 6: Slides
Lecture 7: Slides, theoretical exercise, home
work, lung data
Lecture 8: Slides
Grading: mean (exercises+home work)/3 + 2*(result of
exam)/3, provided the exam result is >=5.5.
If the latter is not the case, a second possibility to pass the exam
will be offered.
Some previous written exams:
February
2007, December
2007, February 2008, December 2008
Solutions December 2007