ST816: Computational Statistics

Study Board of Science

Teaching language: Danish or English depending on the teacher, but English if international students are enrolled
EKA: N370005112, N370005102
Assessment: Second examiner: Internal
Grading: 7-point grading scale
Offered in: Odense
Offered in: Spring
Level: Master's level course approved as PhD course

STADS ID (UVA): N370005101
ECTS value: 10

Date of Approval: 04-11-2021


Duration: 1 semester

Version: Archive

Comment

The course is co-read with ST522.

Entry requirements

Students who have pass ST522 can not follow the course.

Academic preconditions

Academic preconditions. Students taking the course are expected to:

  • Have knowledge of mathematical statistics.

Course introduction

The aim of the course is to enable the student to use modern computer
intensive statistical methods as tools to investigate stochastic
phenomena and statistical procedures, and to perform statistical
inference, which is important in regard to conducting statistical
analysis based on computation and simulation.

The course builds on the
knowledge acquired in the courses calculus and mathematical statistics,
and gives an academic basis for studying the topics probability theory,
order statistics and extreme value statistics, that are part of the
degree.

In relation to the competence profile of the degree it is the explicit focus of the course to:

  • Give the competence to handle model building and/or model calculations.
  • Give skills to perform statistical analyses.
  • Give theoretical knowledge about and practical experience with the application of methods and models in statistics.

Expected learning outcome

The learning objective of the course is that the student demonstrates the ability to:

  • Reproduce
    key theoretical results concerning elementary operations on random
    variables and vectors, and to apply these to simple theoretical
    assignments.
  • Reproduce and apply the fundamental theorems of random variate generation.
  • Simulate variates and vectors from the most common distributions.
  • Evaluate the quality of a random number generator.
  • Apply the basic principles of variance reduction.
  • Simulate complex systems and investigate their properties.
  • Use simulation to approximate integrals.
  • Use simulation to compute p-values and confidence intervals.
  • Investigate properties of statistical procedures and estimators using simulation.
  • Perform programming relevant to the content of the course in the statistical package used in the course.
  • Identify and interpret relevant information in the output of the statistical package used in the course.
  • Summarize the results of an analysis in a statistical report.

Content

The following main topics are contained in the course:
Random
number generators, inversion method, rejection sampling, simulation
from multivariate distributions, Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods,
permutation and randomization tests, transformations, simulation of
experiments and complex systems, Monte Carlo integration, simulation of
stochastic processes, bootstrap methods, Bayesian models and methods, EM
algorithm, nonparametric density estimation.

Literature

See itslearning for syllabus lists and additional literature references.

Examination regulations

Exam element a)

Timing

Spring

Tests

Projects

EKA

N370005112

Assessment

Second examiner: Internal

Grading

7-point grading scale

Identification

Full name and SDU username

Language

Normally, the same as teaching language

Examination aids

To be announced during the course

ECTS value

5

Additional information

The first part of the course is evaluated by projects.

The examination form for re-examination may be different from the exam form at the regular exam.

Exam element b)

Timing

June

Tests

Portfolio consisting of projects and oral exam

EKA

N370005102

Assessment

Second examiner: Internal

Grading

7-point grading scale

Identification

Student Identification Card

Language

Normally, the same as teaching language

Duration

60 minutes (30 minutes preparation time and 30 minutes actual oral exam)

Examination aids

To be announced during the course

ECTS value

5

Additional information

Portfolio consisting of projects and oral exam. The evaluation of the second part of the course is based on the following two components:

  • (i) the projects made during the second half of the course
  • (ii) the oral exam

The examination form for re-examination may be different from the exam form at the regular exam.

Indicative number of lessons

92 hours per semester

Teaching Method

The teaching activities are reflected in an estimated allocation of the workload of an average student as follows:

  • Intro phase (lectures, class lessons) - 56 hours
  • Training phase: 36 hours, including 10 hours tutorials and 26 hours laboratory

Educational activities: Studying the course material and preparing the weekly exercises, individually or through group work.

Teacher responsible

Name E-mail Department
Vaidotas Characiejus characiejus@imada.sdu.dk Analysis

Timetable

Administrative Unit

Institut for Matematik og Datalogi (matematik)

Team at Educational Law & Registration

NAT

Offered in

Odense

Recommended course of study

Profile Education Semester Offer period

Transition rules

Transitional arrangements describe how a course replaces another course when changes are made to the course of study. 
If a transitional arrangement has been made for a course, it will be stated in the list. 
See transitional arrangements for all courses at the Faculty of Science.