Mathematical Statistics, Math 6070, University of Utah, Spring 06

There will be four or five assigned projects. They, together with their deadlines will be posted here, as they become available.

Standards and Resources for Project Reports:

Your project report must be typed, preferrably with a type-setter. My advice is for you to use "LaTeX." It is freely available, and produces output that is far superior to other type-setters, including commercial type-setting products.
Standards of authorship are strictly enforced. If you use an idea from a source, then you must give proper credit. Failure to do so is considered plajurism and will be dealt with severly. One of my personal favorite resources for this sort of information is Little, Brown Handbook by Fowler and Aaron. But there are many other resources such as this. ["LaTeX" has an automated way of making a bibliography that is particularly convenient.]
Some "LaTeX" resources that may be useful to you.
- A guide to LaTeX (in pdf).
- An author FAQ page that deals with more advanced topics in "LaTeX".
- A description of some of the many benefits of "LaTeX". This document is written for authors of AMS publications, but applied equally well to the students in this course.
All of your statistical software code must appear in one or more appendices at the end of the project report. You should document and "comment" them liberally so that your coding can be checked easily; i.e., without having to exert a monumental effort. You may use any reasonable software for your computations. Some possibilities are: "S-Plus" (free version "R"); "SAS"; and last but certainly not the least, "Matlab."