STK4051 - Computational Statistics

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. [Solutions book, Solutions extra]

Exercise 1,?for January 24th:

Exercise 2,?for January 31st.:

  • ?Exercise 3.1 , 3.3 ?
  • 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.
  • Extra exercises 4?( 4c? just for methods covered in class) Note: By communicate we mean that it is possible to move from any state to any other states in a finite number of steps by allowing one-step moves within the neighbourhoods.

  • Solutions:

    exer3_1.R, exer3_1_fullneighbourhood_search.R ,exer3_3.R, Extra exercises 4.??

  • Slides Ex2

Exercise 3,?for February 7th:

Exercise 4,?for February 14th.:

Exercise 5,?for February 21st.:

Exercise 6,?for February 27th.:

Exercise 7, for Mars 7th:

Exercise 8,?for Mars 13th:

Exercise 9, for Mars 20st:

Exercise 10, for? April 10th

Exercise 11 for April 17th:

Exercise 12 for April 24th:

Exercise 13 for May 8th:

Exercises for May 22nd:

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