ST516: Computational Statistics (5 ECTS)

STADS: 15009001

Level
Bachelor course

Teaching period
The course is offered in the spring semester.

Teacher responsible
Email: yuri.goegebeur@stat.sdu.dk

Timetable
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Comment:
Ubegrænset deltagerantal. Fælles undervisning med ST804 og anden halvdel af ST522 og ST816

Prerequisites:
None

Academic preconditions:
The contents of the course ST505 Statistical Simulation must be known.

Course introduction
To introduce computer intensive statistical tools to perform statistical inference. The participants will learn to use the statistical package R to carry out statistical analyses.

Expected learning outcome
At the end of the course the student is expected to be able to:

• reproduce key theoretical results concerning elementary operations on random variables and to apply these to simple theoretical assignments relevant to the content of the course,
• simulate random vectors from multivariate distributions,
• use simulation to perform statistical inference, compute p-values and confidence intervals,
• investigate properties of statistical procedures and estimators using the bootstrap,
• perform programming relevant to the content of the course in the statistical package used in the course,
• identify and interpret relevant information in the output of the statistical package used in the course,
• summarize the results of an analysis in a statistical report.

Subject overview
Simulation from multivariate distributions, the EM algorithm, Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods, permutation and randomization tests, bootstrap methods, nonparametric density estimation, nonparametric regression.

Literature

Meddeles ved kursets start.

Website
This course uses e-learn (blackboard).

Prerequisites for participating in the exam
None

Assessment and marking:
A project is made during the course, which is evaluated in an oral exam at the end of the course. Danish 7-point scale, internal examiner.

Reexamination in the same exam period or immediately thereafter. The re-exam can be of a form different from the ordinary exam.

Expected working hours
The teaching method is based on three phase model.
Intro phase: 28 hours
Skills training phase: 14 hours

Educational activities

Language
This course is taught in Danish or English, depending on the lecturer. However, if international students participate, the teaching language will always be English.

Course enrollment
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Tuition fees for single courses
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