STAT 721 - Statistical Computing and Simulation

Credits: 3

Computationally intensive statistical methods that would not be feasible without modern computational resources and statistical simulation techniques, including random variable generation methods, Monte Carlo simulation and importance sampling, Kernel smoothing and smoothing splines, bootstrap, jackknife and cross validation, regulation and variable selection in regression, EM algorithm, concepts of Bayesian inference, Markov chain Monte Carlo methods such as Gibbs sampling, and the Metropolis-Hasting algorithm.

Prerequisites: STAT 686 and STAT 715.

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