UCLA BIOSTAT 277

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UCLA Winter 2004 BIOSTAT 277 Robust and Modern Nonparametric Statistics

Lectures: MW 10:00AM -- 11:50AM, BLDG PUB HLT Rm 51-279

Instructor: Dr. Mai Zhou 5-5916 ; Rm 51-236A

E-mail: maizhou@ucla.edu, Web page (this page): http://www.ms.uky.edu/~mai/biostat277.html

Office Hours: T 11:00-12:00 ; M 2:00-3:00 or by appointment.

No Required text. The following Reading List will be reserved:

M. Hollander and D.A. Wolfe (1999) Nonparametric Statistical Methods. Wiley.

B.W. Silverman (1986). Density Estimation for Statistics and Data Analysis. Chapman & Hall. first two chapters online

B. Efron and R. Tibshirani (1993). An Introduction to the Bootstrap. Chapman & Hall/CRC.

W. Hardle (1991). Applied Nonparametric Regression. Cambridge.

SAS/STAT User's Guide, Version 8, Volumes 1, 2 and 3.

T.J. Hastie and R. Tibshirani (1990). Generalized Additive Models. Chapman & Hall. Short version

P.K. Andersen, O. Borgan, R. Gill, and N. Keiding (1993). Statistical Models Based on Counting Processes. Springer.

A. Owen (2001). Empirical Likelihood. Chapman & Hall.

Outline of Topics:

Distribution-free tests
Density estimation
Nonparametric and semiparametric regression
Hazard estimation and survival regression
Resampling methods
Empirical likelihood methods

Some useful links:
Intro to Empirical Likelihood I PowerPoint file
about tied data PDF file
Intro to Empirical Likelihood II PDF file
Intro to Empirical Likelihood III PDF file
What is a Cox model? PDF file
Understanding the Cox model PDF file
Software R (GNU version of S)
Many examples, including survival analysis
Bootstrap examples (Not the numerical examples.) PDF file.
Intro to Bootstrap A conversation about bootstrap. PDF file.
Nonparametric Regression PDF file.

In class presentations by students:

Introduction to smoothing splines (By Wu Tongtong) Power point file.
R code for smoothing splines (By Wu Tongtong) MSword file.
Introduction to Nonparametric Regression (By Li Ning) Power point file.
Smoothing the Nelson-Aalen estimator (By Tseng Chi-Hong) PDF file.
Introduction to Jackknife (By Guo Hua) MS doc file.
Comparison of two types of Empirical Likelihood (By Zheng Yan) Power point file.
A re-sampling method (By Kun Nie) PDF file.