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SUPPLEMENTARY EXAMINATIONS:

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Classes

You are required to attend a 2-hour lecture and a 1-hour SGTA each week.  Please refer to the university timetable page for location details.

Technologies used and required

We use the software package R in this Unit. R is becoming increasingly important for statisticians and other scientists. More information about R can be found at the web site http://www.r-project.org/ and the package can be downloaded free of charge from there. R is very similar to the package S-PLUS and most of its codes will also work in S-Plus. From week 2, students will be given exercises each week covering materials from the lectures, and most exercises require using R.

Recommended texts

Prescribed textbook: “Applied Multivariate Statistical Analysis” by Richard A. Johnson, Dean W. Wichern (6^th edition)

Students are expected to possess a copy of this textbook and are required to read certain book chapters each week. The following books may be used as other references for this unit:

DILLON & GOLDSTEIN     Multivariate Analysis – Methods and applications(QA 278 .d55)

FAHRMEIR & TUTZ           Multivariate statistical modelling based on generalized linear models (QA 278 .F34)

FLURY, B                           A first course in multivariate statistics

FLURY, B                           Multivariate statistics: A practical approach

MORRISON, D                   Multivariate statistical methods

The following is a detailed list of the topics covered in this Unit, together with the planned delivery time. All lecture notes will be available on iLearn prior to the lecture.