Exam - project + oral ¡­

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 Methods in R: The boot Package"http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2002-3.pdf

"Ajay Shah: Getting started with the boot package"http://www.mayin.org/ajayshah/KB/R/documents/boot.html

"Quick-R: Bootstrapping"http://www.statmethods.net/advstats/bootstrapping.html