統計諮詢(Statistical Consulting)

盧鴻興

INSTITUTE OF STATISTICS, NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY

SPRING, 2005

TEL: 03-5731870 EMAIL: hslu@stat.nctu.edu.tw

WWW:  http://www.stat.nctu.edu.tw/misg/hslu/consulting/94-1.htm

2005年公告內容(Consulting Cases during Classes in Spring, 2005)

Goals:

This course is designed to introduce the practice of statistical consulting to participants.  Basic probability, statistics, and computing skills are required.  Interactions with different disciplinarians that come to this course are strongly encouraged.  Examples will be illustrated in classes.  Students will participate in projects that analyze data collected in different areas.  Communication skills, problem formulization, statistical modeling and data analysis are key ingredients in this course.

Course Outlines:

• Illustrative Examples and Data Sources
• Applications in Science
• Applications in Engineering and Manufacturing
• Applications in Business and Economics
• Applications in Medicine and Health
• Applications in Education
• Applications in Other Fields

Reference Books:

Cabrera, J. and McDougall, A. (2002), Statistical Consulting, Springer-Verlag, New York. (Course link)

Hand, D. J. and Everitt, B. S. (1987), Statistical Consultant in Action, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Peck, R., Haugh, L. D., and Goodman, A., Editors (1998), Statistical Case Studies: A Collaboration Between Academe and Industry, ASA-SIAM Series on Statistics and Applied Probability 3 and 4.

Czitrom, V. and Spagon, P. D. (1997), Statistical Case Studies for Industrial Process Improvement, ASA-SIAM Series on Statistics and Applied Probability 1.

Venables, W. N. and Ripley, B. D. (1999), Modern Applied Statistics with S-Plus, 3^rd ed., Springer-Verlag, New York.

Cherkassky, V. and Mulier, F. (1998), Learning from Data, Wiley, New York.

Salsburg, D. (2001), The Lady Tasting Tea How Statisticians Revolutionized Science in the 20th Century, Freeman. ( “統計，改變了世界” 葉偉文 譯, 天下文化)

Moore, D. S. (2001), Ststistics: Concepts and Controversies, 5^th ed., Freeman. (“統計，讓數字說話!”鄭惟厚 譯, 天下文化)

Evaluation:

• In class discussion: 30%
• Term Project: 70%

Links:

• Local links of statistical computing and statistics at http://www.stat.nctu.edu.tw/misg/hslu/course/statcomp/links.htm
• Virtual library of statistics at http://www.stat.ufl.edu/vlib/statistics.html
• The Data and Story Library at http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DASL/
• StatLib---Datasets Archive at http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/datasets/
• Journal of Statistics Education Data Archive at http://www.amstat.org/publications/jse/jse_data_archive.html
• International Government statistics at http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/Statistics/
• US Bureau of Census at http://www.census.gov/
• US Fedstats at http://www.fedstats.gov/
• 行政院主計處 at http://www.dgbasey.gov.tw/
• 行政院衛生署 at http://www.doh.gov.tw/
• ASA Consulting Section at http://www.amstat.org/sections/cnsl/
• Chance project at http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/
• Chance magazine at http://www.public.iastate.edu/~chance99/homepage.html
• S Poetry is a book that is geared towards those who are programming in S.
• KDD Cup 2005 (http://www.data-mining-cup.com/2005/Wettbewerb/1115800407/) is a data mining competition.
• PKDD 2005 Discovery Challenge (http://lisp.vse.cz/challenge/).
• Competitions in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.
• Free Stuff to Help People Learn Statistics.

Related Links in Spring, 2005：

• [Survey]
• http://www.math.ntu.edu.tw/~hchen/Prediction/notes/DataCollection.ppt
• http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/spss/faq/alpha.html
• [Path and Factor Analysis]
• http://www2.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/pa765/path.htm
• http://luna.cas.usf.edu/~mbrannic/files/regression/Pathan.html
• http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~efc/classes/biol710/path/SEMwebpage.htm
• http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/spss/whatstat/whatstat.htm#factor
• [Financial Statistics]
• http://www.math.nctu.edu.tw/finmath/
• http://www.math.ntu.edu.tw/~hchen/Prediction/timeseries1.html
• [Engineering Statistics]
  • Reliability by Prof. William Q. Meeker
    (http://www.public.iastate.edu/~stat533/)
  • Reliability by Prof. Vijay Nair
    (http://www.stat.lsa.umich.edu/~vnn/ioe562/)
  • Analysis of Lifetime Data by Prof. Ramon V. Leon
    (http://web.utk.edu/~leon/rel/)
• [Biostatistics and Bioinformatics]
• http://www.nhri.org.tw/nhri_org/bs/biostat/link.htm
• http://bioinfo.life.nctu.edu.tw/edu.php
• http://binfo.ym.edu.tw/edu/courses/internet.htm
• http://ihome.cuhk.edu.hk/%7Eb400559/
• [Software]

• R: http://www.r-project.org/
• Weka: http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~ml/weka/
• Statistical Computing: http://www.stat.nctu.edu.tw/misg/hslu/course/statcomp/links.htm

Previous Projects:

Some examples are put in the followings. The analysis results may have errors and need further improvements. However, they demonstrate some possible applications of statistics.

Examples:

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