Page 45 - Handbook PG 20182019

Faculty of Science Postgraduate Booklet, Session 2018/2019

Assessment Methods:
Continuous Assessment 50%
Final Examination 50%

Medium of Instruction:
English

Transferable Skills:
Ability to analyse data using statistical software and programming skill

Humanity Skill:
CS5, CT5, LL3

References:
1. Maindonald, J.H. (1984). Statistical Computation, John Wiley.
2. Kennedy, W.J. and Gentle, J.E. (1980). Statistical Computing, Marcel Dekker.
3. Chernick, M.R. (2008). Bootstrap Methods: A Guide for Practitioners and Researchers,
Auxilium Pharm.
4. Gentle, J.E. Hardle, W.K. and Mori, Y. (2012). Handbook of Computational Statistics:
Concept and Methods. Springer.
5. Hjorth, J.S. (1994), Computer Intensive Statistical Methods: Validation Model Selection and
Bootstrap, Chapman & Hall.

SQB7017 Robust Statistics

Foundation for Robust methods:
Tooth for judging robustness, measures of location and inference functions, measures of scales, M-
estimation of location.

Some outlier detection methods.
Inference statistics: Construction of confidence intervals.
Robust regression estimation M, GM, MM estimation dan inference functions.

Assessment Methods:
Continuous Assessment 50%
Final Examination 50%

Medium of Instruction:
English

Transferable Skills:
Programming skill

Humanity Skill:
CS5, CT5, LL3

References:
1. Maronna, R.A., Martin, D.R., and Yohai, V.J. (2006). Robust Statistics: Theory and Methods.
Wiley.
2. Huber, P. J., Ronchetti, E.M. (2011). Robust Statistics. John Wiley.

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