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The exam project with text and data sets are now available under the Exam link.

The final syllabus is now available under the Syllabus link.

Remember that those who want the lecture notes can get them if they send an email to magne.aldrin@nr.no

The exercise lesson on Friday 28. October i cancelled. The lectures start 12:15 as usual.

Exam - project + oral exam - the dates may be changed

There will be a small project from 5. December to 13. September. The students has to submit a (short) written report before 13. December 16:00. The project may involve both practical computations and theoretical calculations.

There will further be a oral exam on 19. December. The students will be asked questions related to both their project report and to the general syllabus.

Lecture notes Those who want the lecture notes from the lectures so far can get them if they send an email to magne.aldrin@nr.no.

Additional literature The following literature may be helpful, but is not an explicit part of the syllabus:

"Wikipedia: Bootstrapping"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_%28statistics%29

"John Fox (2002): Bootstrapping regression models"http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Fox-Companion/appendix-bootstrapping.pdf

"Angelo J. Canty: Resampling Method...

There will neither lectures nor exercises on the two next Fridays 7. and 14. October. OBS: So no exercises Friday 7. as previously announced.

Instead there will be two hours exercises on Friday 21. October from 11:15 to 13 and two hours lectures from 13:15 to 15.

Exercises to Friday 21. October are announced under the Exercises link!

Correct version of example 3.21 is available under the examples link. No important differences in the conclusions compared to what was shown in the lectures.

Exercises to Friday 30. september: 3.13 problem 1 and 2.

On Friday 7. october, there will be two hours exercises and no lectures.

On Friday 14. October there will be neither lectures nor exercises. Relax!

R-code and plots from examples given in lectures are now available under the "Lectures - Examples" link.

The examwill be arranged as a combination of a project and an oral examination. See the "exam" link.

The exercises sessions are moved to Fridays 11:15-12, and the first exercise session will be held at Friday 9. September.

Exercises given are now available under the "Exercises" link. Some exercise solutions may also be made available here.

There will be a one hour lecture instead of exercises on Tuesday 30. August.

An overview of previous lectures and a plan for next lectures are now available under the "Lectures" link.

The course starts at Tuesday 23. August with one hour lecture, and continues with two hours lectures on Fridays (teacher Magne Aldrin) and one hour exercises on Tuesday (teacher Ida Scheel).

The course will be based on the book

Bootstrap Methods and Their Application by A. C. Davison and D. V. Hinkley, Cambridge University Press 1997. It is available at the Akademika bookstore. See http://statwww.epfl.ch/davison/BMA/ for a quick overview.

The plan is to cover material from

chapter 2: the basic bootstrap, main part chapter 3: further ideas, selected topics chapter 4: tests, main part chapter 5: confidence intervals, main part chapter 6: linear regression, main part