Statistics 243
Fall 2010
Syllabus and Guidelines for Assignments
Assignments
Assignment 1
(in
PDF
) due Oct 4, 2010
Assignment 2
(in
PDF
) due Nov 8, 2010
Assignment 3
(in
PDF
) due Dec 3, 2010
Assignment 4
(in
PDF
) due Dec 10, 2010
Programs from class 12/03:
mg.c
testdl.c
fn.c
 
sim.r
Connecting to the SCF System Remotely
An Introduction to R
Using the R Standalone Math Library
Calling C from R and Matlab (pdf)
Examples of calling C from R and Matlab (gzipped tar file)
C programs for domat example from 12/1 class
findnr example from class, 11/12
Debugging and Profiling R programs (slides)
Building R Packages (slides)
Slides for a more detailed introductory course to R
Data
and
Paper
demonstrating Jacobean and residual computation for nonlinear regression
A Note about Subroutine Libraries
The basics of the bash shell
html
pdf
Sample programs
UNIX Supplement
C Supplement
Some WWW Resources (from Stat 296)
Using C programs in matlab
C program
to calculate probabilities from Kolmogorov-Smirnoff test
A Tutorial on Make (in postscript)
The Perils of Floating Point
, by Bruce M. Bush. Uses FORTRAN examples, but well worth reading.
What Every Computer Scientist Should Know about Floating Point Arithmetic
, by David Goldberg. Similar to Bush's paper, but with a bit more detail.
Fixing the Backspace Key in emacs
Information about Free Software for Numerical Computation
Frequently Asked Questions
from comp.lang.c
An Excellent
Tutorial on Pointers and Arrays in C
by Ted Jensen
C Library Reference Guide
, by Eric Huss
A Proof of the Rejection Technique
(postscript)
(PDF)
A Note about using the Cholesky Decomposition for transforming random variables
(postscript)
(PDF)
Random Number Generators
George Marsaglia's "Mother of all RNGs" (C code with comments)
Example of a Cryptographic Random Number Generator
Using a Lava Lamp to Generate Random Numbers
A USB or PCI device to generate true random numbers
Phil Spector (link to my
home page
)
spector@stat.berkeley.edu