STATS 760 A Survey of Modern Applied Statistics

Below description edited in year: 2018

Points: 15

Prereqs: STATS 310, 330

Credit: 100% Coursework. Assessment will be based upon seminars, journals, tests and assignment work.

Textbooks: Modern Applied Statistics with S-PLUS (3rd or 4th ed.) by W.N. Venables and B.D. Ripley

For Advice: Andrew Balemi (Email: a.balemi@auckland.ac.nz | extn: 85713)

Taught: First Semester City

Website: STATS 760 website

The aim of this course is twofold: to give students a fairly comprehensive survey of modern applied statistics, and give some training in how to find out details of statistical techniques that are unfamiliar. If you are working in statistics after graduation, you will have to teach yourself a lot of new techniques. This course is designed to give you practice in doing this. Thus, the course is rather different from most postgraduate courses, in that there will be very few lectures. Rather, the course will be tutorial based. The course material will be taken from the book “Modern Applied Statistics with S-Plus” by W.N. Venables and B.D. Ripley.

Topics studied may include: generalised linear models; robust statistics; nonlinear models; random and fixed-effects models; modern regression; survival analysis; multivariate analysis; tree-based methods; time series; spatial statistics; classification.

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