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CMPT 360-3 - COMPUTATION FOR
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Acting under its delegated authority, at its meeting of
July 28, 1981, SCUS approved change of description and change of
prerequisite for CMPT 360-3 - Computation for Statistical Data
Processing.
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Attached is a revision of CMPT 360-3 which redefines
the prerequisites. This revision was considered and approved
at a meeting of the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee held on Tuesday, July 7,
1981, and it is forwarded to you for inclusion on the next
agenda of the Senate Committee on Undergraduate Studies.
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COURSE REVISION
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Department.:. Computing Science
Abbreviation Code:CMPT
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Course Number:360
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Credit Hours:3 Vector: 3-0-0
Title
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Computation for Statistical Data Processing
Calendar Description of Course:
This course is designed to develop expertise in using the computer to aid
in the statistical analysis of large data sets. Exploratory data analysis
and, computer graphics. Use of statistical packages and related algorithms.
Optional topics possibly including Monte Carlo simulations, cluster nalyss,
and pattern recognition.
Nature of Course ?
Lecture
Prerequisites (or special instructions):
CNPT 103-4,
MATH
232-3
and MATH
302-3:required
MATH
272-3 :recommended
What course (courses), if any, is being dropped from the calendar if this course is
approved:
2. Scheduling
How frequently will the course be offered?
Semester in which the course will first be offered?
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Which of
your present faculty would be available to make the proposed offering
possible?
3.
Objectives of the Course
4.
Budgetary and Space Requirements (for information only)
What
additional resources will be required in the following areas:
Faculty
Staff
L ibra r
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Audio Visual
Space
Equipment
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Approval
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'99
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Department Chairman
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Chairman, SCUS
SCUS 73-34b: (When completing this form, for
instructions see Memorandum SCUS 73-34a.
attach course outline).
PROPOSED DETAILED COURSE OUTLINE
1) Computer assisted exploratory data analysis - a survey of techniques
in data presentation.
i)
Numerical summary of data sets: means, medians, fractiles, -
hinges, etc.
ii)
Graphical summaries: stem-and-leaf plots, boxplots, scatteiplots,
histograms, etc. Computer graphics for presenting multivariate data
sets: Chernoff faces starplots, Andrews plots, projection of higher
dimensional scatterplots, etc.
iii)
Graphical techniques in regression and goodness-of-fit: residual
plots, probability plots, etc.
2.
Use of statistical packages and related algorithms:
1) A comparative study of widely used packages for statistical
analysis including SPSS, BNDP and others.
ii) Introduction to algorithms for statistical problems - Gaussian
elimination on normal equations, centering and standardizing variables,
methods based on orthogonal transformations. Diagnostic techniques.
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Application to the comparison of widely used packages, and to the
development of more specialized programs.
3. Optional further topics possibly including:
- Monte Carlo simulation
- clustering
- pattern recognition
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