BS1 Practical Classes

Charalambos Loizides

loizides@stats.ox.ac.uk

Classes will be held Tuesdays 5.30-7.30pm and Wednesdays 6-8pm of weeks 3, 5, and 8 (MT) and Tuesdays 5.30-7.30pm and Wednesdays 5.30-7.30pm of weeks 2 and 7 (HT) in the Isis room in OUCS.

The first practical class will be introductory and there will be no assessed practical.

You will be attending either Tuesday's or Wednesday's class. The class allocation list can be found here.

Handouts

Introductory Practical

MT week 3 – Tue 26/10 & Wed 27/10

Introduction:

Pt1 (Intro)

Pt2 (assessed practical example – question sheet)

Pt3 (assessed practical example – specimen write-up)

Pt4 (Hints on report writing)

Data: hills, moses, werner

R script

1^st Assessed Practical – Linear Models

MT week5 – Tue 9/11 & Wed 10/11

Hints (Example - corrected)

Data (for the example)

R script

The assessed practical problems and data are on Dr Nicholl's webpage

The deadline for submitting the report is:

12 noon Tuesday, week 8 MT (30/11/2010)

Reports should be submitted to the reception in the Department of Statistics, 1 South Parks Road.

2^nd Assessed Practical – Generalised Linear Models

MT week8 – Tue 30/11 & Wed 1/12

Hints

Data

R script

The deadline for submitting the report for the assessed practical is:

12 noon Tuesday, week 2 HT (25/01/2011)

3^rd Assessed Practical – Simulation & Monte-Carlo Methods

HT week2 – Tue 25/1 & Wed 26/1

Hints

Data: nmr.dat statures.dat

R script

The deadline for submitting the report for the assessed practical is:

12 noon Tuesday, week 7 HT (01/03/2011)

4^th Assessed Practical – Non Parametric Tests & Robust Regression

HT week7 – Tue 1/3 & Wed 2/3

Hints

Data: sitka258

R script

Due Date: Friday, week 1 of Trinity Term (12 noon)