STSCI 6520

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STSCI 6520
Computationally Intensive Statistical Methods

Course information provided by the 2014-2015 Catalog.

Modem applications in statistics often require intensive computation and the use of modem statistical learning techniques. This course covers topics in statistical computing, including numerical optimization and finding zeros (likelihood and related techniques), numerical linear algebra, random number generation and Monte Carlo methods, permutation tests, bootstrap and subsampling methods, non-parametric regression, dimension reduction and parallel computing. Intensive programming is done in R.


Prerequisites/Corequisites Corequisites: ORIE 6700/MATH 6730 (or equivalent) and at least one course in probability, or permission of instructor.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: BTRY 6520

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17395 STSCI 6520   LEC 001

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    Corequisites: ORIE 6700/Math 6730 (or equivalent) and at least one course in probability, or permission of instructor.