Department of Statistics

STAT378: Statistical Computing

Lecturer in charge

Dr Jun Ma

Availability

D1 2008; Offered in the first half-year

Unit Outline

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Description

This unit develops basic computer-intensive statistical methods. Topics include: Monte-Carlo simulation; parameter estimation and bootstrapping; regression computations including model selection and ridge regression; iterative procedures for ML parameter estimation and some simple generalized linear models.