STK4051 - Spring 2020

Weekly exercises

Exercises with only a number refers to exercises in the textbook, Givens & Hoeting: Computational Statistics. A collection of all data related to that book is available from the webpage for the book. Some of the datasets will also be available at the data page for the course. Also R-scripts for the examples in the book are available there.

Extra exercises refers to exercises in a separate note which will be updated during the course. These are equally important as the exercises from the book.

Exercise 1, for January 23:

Exercise 2, for January 30:

  •  Exercise 3.1 (exer3_1.R), 3.3 (exer3_3.R), 3.4 a-c (exer3_4.R) (not the tournament selection)

  • Test the code ADMM_Lasso, on the baseball data.  Try different values of tolerance  and penalty parameter and to check the number of iterations required for convergence. Competition:  Who gets a sufficiently good result with the least number of iterations?  

Exercise 3, for February 6:

Exercise 4, for February 13:

Exercise 5, for February 20:

  • Extra exercises  8 and 9.

Exercise 6, for February 26:

Exercise 7, for Mars 5:

Exercise 8, for Mars 12:

Exercise 9, for Mars 19:

Exercise 10 and extra work,  for March 26:

Exercise 11 for April 2:

Exercises for April 16:

  • Extra exercises 39, 40, 42  (Slides)

Exercises for April 23:

  • Focus on the compulsory exercise part 1 & part 2. I will go trough some computations from an earlier exam in class
  • Exam STK4051 2017: Exercise 2, solutions

Exercises for April 30:

  • Focus on the compulsory exercise part 1 & part 2. I will go trough some computations from an earlier trial exam in class
  • Trial Exam 2019, 1,2,4, solutions.

Exercises for May 7:

Exercises for May 14:

 

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