Exercises

Start: Friday, 20.02.2009

The first seminar class will be in the computer room HG E 26.1 for an Introduction to R and emacs and the preliminary discussion of the first exercise (see the links below). Apart from this, the seminar classes are always on Friday, 10-12, HG E 3

There will be no seminar classes on 10.04.2009 (Good Friday) and on 01.05.2009.

Exercises will be based on the free open-source statistics and graphics software R, downloadable from the ETH CRAN mirror for Mac, Linux or Windows.

Here is the link to a very short introduction to R for Unix/Linux. We will work with it in the first seminar class. Here is the German version of this document.

Students rather working with Windows can use this tutorial (only available in German).

Emphasis will be put on applied problems. Active participation in the exercises is strongly recommended and required to get credits.

All R packages necessary to solve the exercises are installed in the computer labs in the E floor of the ETH main building. Students which prefer working with their own laptop or PC will need to download packages themselves. R packages can be downloaded from CRAN (where you got R), ETH mirror at http://cran.ch.r-project.org/. Follow the link "Packages" on the left side. There, you can also find documentation on how to install the packages.

Exercises

Please take a look at this organizational sheet (NEW!), containing important information about the exercises and how they should be handed in.

Questions and Comments

You can always ask questions to the lecturer and tutors during the class and the exercise session. If you want to send us an email, please send it to this address: compstat@stat.math.ethz.ch

Solutions

The solutions (PDF files) will be sent weekly to the students enrolled for this course.

Miscellanea

Lecture attestation (Testat):
You need to complete at least 60% of all the tasks, not necessarily correctly but with a satisfying effort. There will be 10 series. You can get a maximum of 4 points for each exercise sheet. (Therefore, you need at least 24 points to get the lecture attestation.)

You must hand in your solution (printed form) during the seminar class. We will not correct solutions submitted by email.

Solutions handed in after the deadline on the exercise sheet will not be corrected and will NOT count towards the lecture attestation.

Any corrected exercise sheets that have not been picked up during the seminar class will be kept until 5th of June 2009 in the room HG J68 in the tray "Computational Statistics / Corrected Exercises". After the indicated date they will be thrown away.