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Lecturer:
Kevin Vo
Office: Room 210 Richard Berry Building
E-mail: kevin.vo.kxvo@gmail.com
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My research interests:
My main research interests are minimum divergence estimation
methods, robust statistics and model selection. Recently, I have
started working on composite likelihood methods for complex
biological spatio-temporal data which allows me to combine my
interest in likelihood-based methods with my interest in biomedical
applications.
1. Semi-parametric estimation for long-range time series data (with La Vecchia,
D., Univ of Geneva)
2. Confidence sets for model selection (with Chao Zheng, UniMelb and Prof.
Yang, Univ of Minnesota)
3. Composite likelihood methods for big and complex data (with Zhendong
Huang)
4. Spatio-temporal models for multi-color clonal cell tracking (with PuXue Qiao,
Prof. Fred Hollande, UniMelb Pathology)
5. Stress/cancer modeling by generalized mixed-models (with Dr Sloan, E.,
Monash University)
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Drawning in data
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MAST20005/MAST90058 Overview
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Assessment
3 assignments (20%)
1. Beginning of Week 4, Due at the end of Week 5
2. Beginning of Week 7, Due at the end of Week 8
3. Beginning of Week 10, Due at the end of Week 11
Computer Laboratory Test held in Week 12 (10%)
3-hour written examination in the examination period (70%)
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Textbook
(either 7th , 8th or 9th Edition will work). Subject mostly based on
Chapters 6-10.
Datasets from the textbook are available from the server in the
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Computing
computing skills
We make extensive use of the open source package R which may
https://www.rstudio.com/
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LMS web-site
The subject web-site, available through Learning Management System
(LMS), contains, among other things:
Announcements: Occasional announcements, usually
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part, will be like the tutorial problems and the assignments. There
will be questions involving interpretation of R output.
Cheat sheet: You are allowed to take with you 3 double-sided A4
of the problems will be on the longer side and will assess practical
data analysis skills. This kind of problem will also involve report
writing and computer use, particularly R.
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Course structure
The best way (maybe the only way) to learn statistics is solving
problems!
Lectures: I will explain theoretical concepts but also give plenty of
examples.
Tutorials: Discussion of weekly problems typically assigned on
Topics:
1. Review of basic concepts: probability, distributions and random variables (Ch
15).
2. Introduction to statistical inference, point estimation (Ch 6)
3. Interval estimation for means and variances (Ch 6)
4. Regression (Ch 6)
5. Interval Estimation for proportions and sample Size (Ch 7)
6. Hypothesis tests (Ch 7)
7. Analysis of variance (Ch 7)
8. Order statistics and confidence intervals for percentiles (Ch 8)
9. Rank Tests, Chi-square tests and contingency tables (Ch 8)
10. Introduction to bootstrap and resampling methods (Ch 8)
11. Introduction to Bayesian methods (Ch 9)
12. Theory of hypothesis tests: power, best critical regions, likelihood ratio test
(Ch 10)
13. Asymptotic distributions of Maximum Likelihood Estimators and M-estimators
(Ch 10)
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