Stat 6501/6502: Graduate Mathematical Statistics I/II

Week 10:

• Student Evaluations
• Quiz 2 due Monday.
• Homework 3 due Monday.
• Homework 4 questions Wednesday.
• Introduction to Poisson Regression.
• Word cloud websites.
  • Wordle
  • WordItOut
  • ABCYa
• Project Guidelines Wordcloud Project.pdf
• Visual Statistical Inference for Regression Parameters
• See Handouts for wordcloud, nonlinear modeling, clustering handouts.
• The Data Whisperer: Norman Nie of Revolution Analytics
• Revolution Analytics R Language Feature blog
• How 0xdata wants to help everyone become data scientists
• 0xdata Give H20 a try, very intersting.

Check out this recent video from SAS Software utube channel Nate Silver

A Conversation with Nate Silver: Analytic Evolutions, Big Data Failures and D

Big Thoughts on Data: Revolution Analytics

Week 9:

• Take-home quiz2 quiz2.pdf
• Homework 3 due Monday June 3
• Homework 4 due at the Final.
• Wordcloud Project due at the Final.
• ucla idre dae Data Analysis Examples

Week 8:

• Monday - Poisson Dispersion Test  Variance Stabalization (the VST is unreadable, might be able to print and read.  New to be posted.)
• Sentiment Analysis
• Web Data Mining
• Word Coulds
  • Discussion about wordclouds
  • Good wordcloud example
  • Nice wordcloud example
  • Another collection of wordcloud examples
  • One more example of wordcloud
  • Last example
• Extra Credit - What is the distribution of the p-value?  code.R
• Extra Credit - Ch. 9 Problem 40, Ch. 10 Problem 10
• Quiz 2 date changed - Quiz 2, Monday May 3 (one weeks before the final)
• Project - Make a Word Cloud
• Last Homework - TBA

Week 7:

• See Handouts for paper on the Exact Likelihood Ratio Test for two normal samples.

MS Exam Spring 2013

• Closed Book - Friday May 17 - MI 2078 - 9am -1pm - arrive 8:30am
• Open Book - Tuesday May 21 - SSci 146
  • morning 8:30am - 12:30am - arrive 8:00am
  • afternoon 1:00pm - 5:00pm - arrive 12:30 - gather South Science 105C
• map of campus - correction MI is a square not a circle on the map, corner of Harder Rd. and West Loop Rd.

Week 6:

• Homework 2 due Wednesday May 8, 2013.
• Homework 3 has been posted.
• Homework 4 has been posted.

Stat 6501: Office hours this week - May 6 and May 8

 Hello everyone,

Due to a scheduling conflict, I will need to reschedule my MW 4:50 - 5:50 office hour to MW 8-9pm.

I will still be holding my MW 12:50-1:50 office hours.

If needed, I can schedule an appointment on a T or Th afternoon.

Prof. Suess

Week 5:

• Midterm Wednesday May 1, 2013.  Topics: Terminology of Hypothesis Testing, Bayesian conjugate prior problems.

Week 4:

• Quiz 1 Wednesday April 24, 2013. 

Week 3:

• We will discuss Homework 1 on Monday.  Homework 1 can be turned in Monday or Wednesday if there are final changes to be make.
• Homework 2 has been posted. 
• Quiz 1 Wednesday April 24, 2013.
• If your are interested in podcasts, here is a link to the Rpodcast it is very interesting.

Week 2:

• Homework 1 has been slightly modified.  Due Monday April 15, 2013.

Week 1:

• Syllabus posted.
• Homework 1 posted.
• Statistics 6501 final solution posted in Bb under Course Materials.

Week 10:

• Quiz 2 Monday.
• Homework 6 posted.  Due next quarter.  Will be revised into Homework 1 for Stat 6502.
• Final review.txt

Week 9:

• Project: Read Ch. 10, do one of the following, problem 49 or 50. Due at the Final.
• Midterm solution posted on Bb.
• Quiz 2 Monday 3/11/2013.
• Homework 5 due Monday 3/11/2013.

Week 8:

• Homework 4 due Monday 3/4/2013.
• Homework 5 posted.
• Midterm EC solution posted on Bb.

Week 7:

• MT Extra Credit.  mt1aEC.pdf due Monday 2/25/2013
• FYI Fall 2012 MS Exams posted in Bb on the Statistics Majors Organization under Past MS Exams.

Week 6:

• Quiz 1 returned in class on Monday.  Solution posted on Bb.
• MT Wednesday 2/13/2013.
• MT Extra Credit.  mt1aEC.pdf
• Homework 4 posted.
• Homework 3 due Wednesday 2/13/2013.
• Homework 3 solution posted on Bb.  Useful for studying
• Homework 1 solution to be posted on Bb.
• Very interesting American Statistician paper posted showing the equivalence of the main two survey sampling methods presented in the book.

Week 5:

• quiz 1 Wednesday.  quiz1.pdf
• Homework 2 solution posted on Bb.

Week 4:

• Homework 3 posted
• Stat. 6401 final solution has been posted on the Stat. 6501 Bb site.

Week 3:

• Homework 2 due Monday 1/28/2013

• ucla idre resources to help you learn and use R
• statistics.com Using R
• coursera Introduction to Data Science Computing for Data Analysis Data Analysis

Week 2:

• Homework 2 has been posted.
• Homework 1 will be due Wednesday 1/23/2013.
• Correction to R code for Problems 65 and 67.  Tab delimited files replaced by csv files.  The R code has been replaced to read the data into R.
• Monday 1/21 is a holiday.  No class.

• codeschool TryR
• rdatamining
• SAS Global Forum
• ComputationalReporting

Week 1:

• Homework 1 has been posted.