STAT598Z: Introduction to Computing For Statisticians

The lab will use a UNIX operating system. We will learn to write and execute simple Python programs in this lab using Emacs as our editor.

• Instructor: Jyotishka Datta, MATH G148
• Location: ENAD 135
• Lab Schedule: 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM , Thursdays
• Office Hours: XXX or by appointment

• 12 Jan 2012: Setting up your environment
• 19 Jan 2012: Basic UNIX commands
• 26 Jan 2012: Your first Python program
• 02 Feb 2012: Calling functions and using Python libraries
• 09 Feb 2012: Sorting
• 16 Feb 2012: Numpy
• 23 Feb 2012: Plotting with Python
• 01 Mar 2012: Random variable generation
• 22 Mar 2012: Nearest neighbor classifier
• 29 Mar 2012: Kernel density estimation
• 05 Apr 2012: K-means clustering
• 12 Apr 2012: Gaussian mixture models
• 19 Apr 2012: Convex functions
• 26 Apr 2012: Simple Optimization Algorithms