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INSTITUTE OF STATISTICS, NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY

SPRING, 2002

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

WWW:  http://www.stat.nctu.edu.tw/misg/hslu/stat_consulting/syllabus.htm

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. ( ¡§²Îp¡A§ïÅܤF¥@¬É¡¨ ¸°¶¤å Ķ, ¤Ñ¤U¤å¤Æ)

Moore, D. S. (2001), Ststistics: Concepts and Controversies, 5^th ed., Freeman. (¡§²Îp¡AÅý¼Æ¦r»¡¸Ü!¡¨¾G±©«p Ķ, ¤Ñ¤U¤å¤Æ)

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/
• Dr. B's Wide World of Web Data at http://research.ed.asu.edu/main/multimedia/DrB/Default.htm
• 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
• UCLA Statistics Data Repository at http://ebook.stat.ucla.edu/data/data.phtml
• Statistics Division, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) at http://www.unescap.org/stat/index.htm
• 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/
• ¦æ¬F°|¥Dp³B at http://www.dgbasey.gov.tw/
• ¦æ¬F°|½Ã¥Í¸p 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
• Websites useful to teachers of statistics at http://www.amstat.org/education/web4teachers.html
• S Poetry is a book that is geared towards those who are programming in S.
• KDD Cup 2002 is a data mining competition held in conjuction with the Eighth ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.
• The Data Mining Cup 2002.
• PKDD 2001 Discovery Challenge.
• Competitions in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.
• Free Stuff to Help People Learn Statistics.

Previous Projects:

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4. 1999/12/15: Data Analysis of Tables of Content [pdf 265KB].

5. 1999/12/25: Fair Judgment? [pdf 113KB].

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