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Overview
Mathematics & Statistics (Sci) : General introduction to computational methods in statistics; optimization methods; EM algorithm; random number generation and simulations; bootstrap, jackknife, cross-validation, resampling and permutation; Monte Carlo methods: Markov chain Monte Carlo and sequential Monte Carlo; computation in the R language.
Terms: Winter 2015
Instructors: Stephens, David (Winter)