Stat 326/426

Multivariate Analysis and Data Mining

• Course Syllabus
• Lectures and Handouts -- restricted access
• Homework Assignments
• Final Examination and Solutions

Other Information

• Computing
  • Statistics lab and system administrator hours
  • Nord hall computer lab
  • University computing resources

  • How to Login and get a terminal window
  • How to work on Statistics machines remotely
  • General SSH link, a LOCAL SSH client, Putty and Pscp (ssh and scp freeware)
  • X-windows for Unix, for Mac OS X and for Window systems (Cygwin)

  • Free copy of S+ student edition and S+ help and documentation
  • R Project
  • SAS from UM and Running SAS in a Unix machine if there is a Unix license

  • GGobi and XGobi
  • LaTex
  • HTML and Latex2html
  • Emacs

  • Frequently used UNIX commands and Uinx in a Nutshell
  • Internet FAQ's
• Writing
  • Nicholas J. Higham (1994). Handbook of Writing for the Mathematical Sciences
  • W. Strunk and E.B. White (1999). The Elements of Style. Macmillan Publishing.
  • Writing Style from Economist
• Contests
  • Data Mining Cup
  • KDD Cup
  • Biannual Data Expo by ASA Sections on Statistical Computing and Statistical Graphics
  • SIAM's Data Mining Conference, 2012 and Text Mining 2012
  • 2011 ASA Video Contest
• News about Statistics
  • For Today's Graduate, Just One Word: Statistics