Stat 215b Spring 2004 Section page

GSI: Ben Bolstad email: bolstad@stat.berkeley.edu Professor Brillinger's 215b webpage

Important Notices

We will hold section on Feb 3 in 443 Evans. The normal section hour on Thursday Feb 5 is cancelled.

Handouts

Computing Guide: Getting Started (pdf file)
Latex file giving example structure for a lab writeup
Output file from Latex file giving example of a lab writeup

Labs

Lab	Data Files	Due Date	Comments/Additional files
Lab 0	auto-mpg.data auto-mpg.names
Lab 1	cars.dat	Due Feb 12th, 2004	Comments on Lab1
Lab 2	bonding.dat	Due Feb 26th, 2004	Some notes on ellipses Simultaneous Confidence Intervals
Lab 3	ozoneA.dat ozoneB.dat ozoneC.dat	Due Mar 11th, 2004	Methods of model selection Some comments on Lab 3
Lab 4	radioactive.dat	Due Apr 1th, 2004	Delta Method Fisher Information Matrix
Lab 5	radioactive2.dat	Due Apr 15th, 2004
Lab 6	earthquakes.dat UStemp.dat	Due Apr 29th, 2004	Code for TempDist1 TempDist1.png You should aim for this

Sample code

Simulating qqplots qqplots.R
Simple code for drawing an ellipse
Multiple testing simulation
Code for Lab 2 (Lab2.ps graphical output from code)
Some basic bootstrapping

Miscellanous Documents

A few words about multiple testing
Writing a report for Stat 215b Please Read

Office hours

Usually 9-11am on Fridays (except when noted by email). Other times by appointment.

Useful Links

Latex links
Latex Help
Phil Spectors Latex 2e notes (note this is compressed postscript file)
The Latex Navigator
Document Preparation with Latex
Beginning Latex (An on line tutorial)
A Latex Primer
List of latex books that may be useful

R/Splus links
R-project.com
Insightful.com (Commercial S-plus)
Phil Spectors Intro to S-Plus (note that this is a pdf file)
An R tutorial
More online info on SPlus
List of R/S-Plus books that might be useful

Queries/Comments

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