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日期：2020-04-13 09:40

STAT 440 Project

The project for this class is completely open ended. You are encouraged to pick any topic you wish as long as

there is a direct connection to computational statistics, either its theory, methodology or application. For example,

you can run an experiment to compare different ways to summarize data, to study the theory behind the methods

we study in class, or you can apply different advanced computational statistics methods to study an interesting

problem. You must work with a partner.

Feel free to talk to me to see if a project is suitable or not for this class. You may submit a one-page proposal

for my suggestions anytime.

This project is due at the last class 12pm on Friday, May 1st, and a in-class presentation will be given in

the last two weeks of the class. Extensions beyond this due date will only be given for genuine and unforeseen

emergencies, such as serious illness or death in the family. To avoid last minute problems with laptops, hard drives,

etc., be sure to keep your work regularly and frequently backed up as we do not generally consider such difficulties

to be “emergencies”.

1 Choose a topic

You should start by reading some papers on a topic, and then you might do some experiments, or try to simplify

or improve some result, or you may try to apply statistics to a particular application.

Here are some examples of possible types of projects:

Example 1: Study a paper or two about an important methodology in statistics and its application/impact,

which is covered or not in class, such as bootstrap [1], ridge regression [2], or Lasso [3].

Example 2: Study an application of statistical computing, like machine learning, sociology, psychology and

biology. If you choose to do an application, I expect you to do some experiments on real datasets and get some

interesting conclusion.

Example 3: Study some computational methods from in depth theoretical perspective.

You may come to me if you cannot find a topic on your own, and I can assign you one. However,

in that case, the highest possible grade you may expect on your project is A-.

2 Write a report

The end result of your project should be a written report that clearly and concisely describes what you did, what

results you get and what the results mean. Try to limit your report to 10 pages. (You may write longer if you

really think it’s necessary but brevity will be much appreciated. If you exceed the page limit and I believe that

is not necessary, a downgrade is possible.) The report should use 12pt font, 1-inch margins, and single spacing.

The page length limits do not include figures, citations, tables or detailed proofs. (You may put figures, tables or

detailed proofs or computations in Appendix.)

You should write your report as clearly as possible in a manner that would be understandable to a fellow STAT

440 student. You should not assume that the reader has background beyond the materials covered in class. Your

report should begin by describing the problem you are studying including some background on what has been

done before and the motivation for the problem, i.e., why it is worth studying. Previous work and outside sources

should be cited throughout your report in a scholarly fashion following the style of academic papers in this area.

(See journals like Annals of Applied Statistics, Biometrics, Journal of the American Statistical Association.)

Next, you should clearly explain what you did, both from a high level, and then in more details. For an

experimental paper, you should explain the experiments in enough detail that there is a reasonable possibility that

a motivated reader would be able to replicate them. State your results clearly, and think about graphical tools you

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can use to make your presentation clearer (a table of numbers is usually less compelling than a graphical representation

of the same data). Look through published papers for ideas. For a theoretical paper, the mathematical

details should be explained well enough for the results to be stated with mathematical precision and clarity.

In every case, be sure to explain the meaning of your results.

3 Do a presentation

You will do a presentation for about 15 minutes in class during the last one or two weeks. Use a small number of

slides to describe what you have done and what you get. Again, be clear and concise to make sure your classmates

can understand why your study is interesting.

4 What you will be graded on

Projects will be graded along the following dimensions: (i) originality and creativity (10%); (ii) background

material (10%); (iii) theoretical component or experimental design and execution (20%); (iv) discussion and

interpretation of results (15%); (v) writing of the final report (clarity and conciseness) (20%); (vi) presentation

(15%); (vii) overal effort (10%).