STSCI 5520 - Statistical Computing

Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.

Prerequisite: BTRY 3080 or

, enrollment in MATH 2220 and MATH 2240 or equivalents. Previous programming experience is recommended. Co-meets with STSCI 4520.

J. Booth.

This course is designed to provide students with an introduction to statistical computing. The class will cover the basics of programming; numerical methods for optimization and linear algebra and their application to statistical estimation, generating random variables, bootstrap, jackknife and permutation methods, Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods, Bayesian inference and computing with latent variables.