AMS 597 Statistical Computing, Spring 2011
Class: Math Tower S235 (Sinc Site)
Time: Tuesday, 5:20-6:40 pm (For section 2)
Tuesday, 6:50-8:10 pm (For section 1)
Topics: SAS data steps, Descriptive statistics, SAS array, Correlation and regression analysis, Categorical data analysis, T-test and nonparametric
comparisons, Analysis of variance, Simulation using SAS, SAS macro (Above topics are based on SAS), introduction of Matlab,
introduction of R.
Instructor: Shengnan Cai
Office hour: Thursday 4:00-6:00 pm; Harriman Hall 018(4)
Phone: 631-632-1884
Email: hhan@ams.sunysb.edu
Office hour: Tue 2:30-3:30 pm, Wed 2:00-3:00 pm; 2-101 Math Tower
Email: shengnan@ams.sunysb.edu
Final take-home exam (Due May 20th)
Files for take-home exam: 1. fishprices.txt 2. R_GM 3. R_SP
Syllabus1 Lecture note#1 (Ch1) Lecture note#2 (Ch12 & 13) Lecture note#3 (Ch14 & 17)
Lecture note#4 (Ch2) Lecture note#5 (Ch15 &16) Lecture note#6 (Ch5) Lecture note#7 (Ch3)
Lecture note#8 (Ch6) Lecture note#9 (Matlab) Lecture note#10 (R) Lecture note#11 (Ch7)
Lecture note#12 (SAS Macro) Lecture note#13 (SAS Macro)
Homework#1 (Due Mar 1st) Homework#1 Solution Homework#2 (Due Mar 28th) Homework#2 Solution
Homework#3 (Due April 26th) Homework#3 Solution Homework#4 (Due May 10th) Homework#4 Solution
Midterm_SectionI Midterm_SectionI_Solution (modified) Midterm_SectionII Midterm_SectionII_Solution (modified)