Stat 227: Statistical Computing

This web page is a repository for handouts and related material for Stat 227. This course covers statistical computing at the M.S. level.
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Course Announcement: ps , pdf


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Departmental Computing guide

IEEE floating point information

Computer experiments ps , pdf


Problem Set 1 ps , pdf

Problem Set 2 ps | pdf | example1| example2| example3| kriginput

Problem Set 3 ps , pdf

Problem Set 4 ps | pdf | 500 primes