University of Iowa

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

• STAT:7400
• Syllabus
• Outline
• Notes
• Homework
• Resources

STAT:7400 Computer Intensive Statistics

Preliminaries and Prerequisites

This course is intended primarily for PhD students in Statistics and Biostatistics to provide an introduction to a range of computationally intensive methodology and to the use of computation in statistical research and practice. The primary computing framework we will use is R; if you are not already familiar with R from your other courses it would be a good idea to take some time over break to become familiar with it. The R web site has links to a number of free introductions and to introductory books that are available.

You will also need to write a few simple C programs. If you are not yet familiar with C again it would be a good idea to get up to speed over the break.

• A good introductory book is Practical C Programming" by Steve Oualline.
• A good reference is C: A Reference Manual by Harbison and Steele.
• A simple C program example is available here. Make sure you can
  • compile and run this program
  • modify the program to calculate another one argument function
  • modify the program to calculate a two argument function

You will be working on the Division of Mathematical Sciences Linux computers. If you have not used these before you can find some introductory materials here:

• Introduction to Linux from the Linux Documentation Project.
• CLAS Linux Help.

Some other useful resources:

• Coding standards
• Brief introduction to the Git source code management system

Announcements

• Zoom Link for April 6 and 8 Classes

  Classes on April 6 and 8 will be on Zoom at

  https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/93982174212?pwd=ZXZTNDlrSmV4cUpOU3ZDV2JGeG9aQT09

• Virtual Instruction Details

  Office hours will be held via Zoom MWF 10:30-11:20 or by appointment.

  Homework/projects will be submitted via ICON and/or GitLab.

  Please use Piazza, available on the navigation bar at the left of the class ICON page, to ask questions. Public questions to Piazza are best when possible, as then other students can benefit from seeing the answers. Your public questions can be anonymous if you prefer. You can also email me, but I will redirect you to Piazza unless confidentiality is needed.

  If you want help with a particular coding issue please commit and push what you have to GitLab, open an Issue in GitLab, and assign the issue to me and I will respond.

  Please log into https://research-git.uiowa.edu/ with your HawkID so I can set up your class GitLab repository.

  Please let me know if you have any issues accessing the course materials.

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