STK4051 - Spring 2021

Weekly exercises

Exercises with only a number refers to exercises in the textbook, Givens & Hoeting: Computational Statistics. A collection of all data related to that book is available from the webpage for the book. Some of the datasets will also be available at the data page for the course. Also R-scripts for the examples in the book are available there.

Extra exercises refers to exercises in a separate note which will be updated during the course. These are equally important as the exercises from the book.

Exercise 1, for January 21:

Exercise 2, for January 28:

  •  Exercise 3.1 (exer3_1.R), 3.3 (exer3_3.R), 3.4 a-c (exer3_4.R) (not the tournament selection)

  • Test the code ADMM_Lasso, on the baseball data.  Try different values of tolerance  and penalty parameter and to check the number of iterations required for convergence. 

Exercise 3, for February 4:

Exercise 4, for February 11:

Exercise 5, for February 18:

  • Extra exercises  8 and 9.

Exercise 6, for February 25:

Exercise 7, for Mars 4:

Exercise 8, for Mars 11:

Exercise 9, for Mars 18:

Exercise 10 and extra work,  for April 8:

Exercise 11 for April 15:

Exercises for April 22:

  • Extra exercises 39, 40, 42 (Slides)

Exercises for April 29:

Exercises for May 6:

  • Focus on the compulsory exercise part 1 & part 2. I will go trough some computations from an earlier exam in class
  • Exam STK4051 2017: Exercise 2, solutions

Exercises for May 20:

Exercises for May 27:

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