- Docente: Angela Montanari
- Crediti formativi: 6
- SSD: SECS-S/01
- Lingua di insegnamento: Inglese
- Modalità didattica: Convenzionale - Lezioni in presenza
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
Laurea in
Scienze statistiche (cod. 8873)
Valido anche per Laurea Magistrale in Statistical Sciences (cod. 9222)
Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire
By the end of the course the student gains an appreciation of the types of problems and questions arising with multivariate data. In particular the student should be able: - to apply and interpret methods of dimension reduction including principal component analysis, multidimensional scaling, factor analysis, canonical variates - to apply and interpret methods for cluster analysis and discrimination - to interpret the output of R procedures for multivariate statistics
Contenuti
Multivariate data and derived matrices. Dimension reduction methods: principal component analysis, factor analysis. Cluster analysis (unsupervised classification). Supervised classification.
Testi/Bibliografia
Handnotes on Virtuale
In Italian
-Appunti di analisi statistica multivariata, S.Mignani e A.Montanari, Esculapio
In English
http://en.bookfi.org [http://en.bookfi.org/]
-Applied Multivariate Data Analysis. B.S. Everitt and G.G. Dunn, 2001, Edward Arnold. Second Edition.
-A First Course in Multivariate Statistics. B. Flury, 1997, Springer Verlag.
-Introduction to Multivariate Analysis. C. Chatfield and A.J. Collins, 1980, Chapman and Hall.
-Principles of Multivariate Analysis: A User's Perspective. W.J. Krzanowski, 1988, Oxford University Press.
-Multivariate Analysis. K.V. Mardia, J.T. Kent and J. Bibby, 1979, Academic Press.
-Modern Applied Statistics with S. Venables, W.N. and Ripley, B.D. 2002. 4th Edition. Springer Verlag, New York. Very useful for Splus and R
-The Elements of Statistical Learning. Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani and Jerome Friedman. Springer Verlag, New York. Some very advanced material as well as that covered in this course (but available for free as a .pdf download on http://www.stat.
stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/)
Practicals
Handontes on Virtuale
Metodi didattici
lectures and practicals
Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento
written exam
The exam lasts 1 and half our and involves four exercises, one for each of the main topics dealt with during the course.
Past exams highlighting how grades are assigned will be made available on virtuale and solved in class
Orario di ricevimento
Consulta il sito web di Angela Montanari