MAS2602: Computing for Statistics

Dr. Lee Fawcett

Newcastle University

MAS2602

Semester 1, 2019 - 2020

This is the course website for the Statistics part of MAS2602: Computing for Mathematics and Statistics, taught by Dr. Lee Fawcett.

Schedule of lectures and tutorials

Lectures take place on Mondays 11am-12pm in Lecture Theatre 1 of the Herschel Building.

In addition to the lectures there are regular computer practicals. These take place in the Herschel PC cluster and are 2 hours long.

Please follow your week-by-week timetable in the lecture notes for a complete calendar for this part of the course!

Background reading

  • John Brown and Duncan James Murdoch: A First Course in Statistical Programming with R
  • Sheldon Ross: A First Course in Probability
  • N.A. Weiss, Paul T. Holmes and Hardy Michael: A Course in Probability

Contact details

Module leader: Lee Fawcett

Email: lee.fawcett@newcastle.ac.uk

Room 2.07
Herschel Building
Newcastle University
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
NE1 7RU

Phone: (0191) 208 7228