Statistics 243

Fall 2008

Syllabus and Guidelines for Assignments

Assignments

1. Assignment 1 (in PDF) due Oct 6, 2008
2. Assignment 2 (in PDF) due Nov 10, 2008
3. Assignment 3 (in PDF) due Dec 1, 2008
4. Assignment 4 (in PDF) due Dec 10, 2008

Connecting to the SCF System Remotely

An Introduction to R

Calling R functions from C programs

Debugging and Profiling R programs (slides)

Slides for a more detailed introductory course to R

Data and Paper demonstrating Jacobean and residual computation for nonlinear regression

A Note about Subroutine Libraries

The basics of the bash shell html pdf

Sample programs

UNIX Supplement

C Supplement

Some WWW Resources (from Stat 296)

C program to calculate probabilities from Kolmogorov-Smirnoff test

A Tutorial on Make (in postscript)

The Perils of Floating Point, by Bruce M. Bush. Uses FORTRAN examples, but well worth reading.

What Every Computer Scientist Should Know about Floating Point Arithmetic, by David Goldberg. Similar to Bush's paper, but with a bit more detail.

Fixing the Backspace Key in emacs

Information about Free Software for Numerical Computation

Frequently Asked Questions from comp.lang.c

An Excellent Tutorial on Pointers and Arrays in C by Ted Jensen

C Library Reference Guide, by Eric Huss

A Proof of the Rejection Technique (postscript) (PDF)

A Note about using the Cholesky Decomposition for transforming random variables (postscript) (PDF)

Random Number Generators