MATH5714M — Linear Regression, Robustness, and Smoothing

Most of the information for MATH3714 also applies to the level 5 version of the module. The main difference is that the level 5 version has one extra lecture every week, where we will discuss smoothing methods.

Contents

Everything can be found on the following two web sites:

• Level 3 material
• Level 5 material

References

The module will be self-contained and you won't need to buy/borrow a book for the module. In case you want to do some background reading or are looking for an alternative presentation of the material covered in lectures, the following texts may be helpful:

• Bernard W. Silverman: Density Estimation for Statistics and Data Analysis.
  200 pages, Chapman and Hall, 1986.
  [library] [Amazon]
• M.P. Wand, M.C. Jones: Kernel Smoothing.
  212 pages, Chapman and Hall, 1995.
  [library] [Amazon]

Links

• MATH5714M module catalog entry
• The university timetable/room plan

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