Courses Taught by Peter Xuekun Song

BIOSTAT885: Nonparametric Statistics

  • Graduate level
  • Residential
  • Fall term(s) for residential students;
  • 3 credit hour(s) for residential students;
  • Instructor(s): Peter Xuekun Song (Residential);
  • Prerequisites: Biostat 601/602 or Perm. Instr.
  • Description: Theory and techniques of nonparametrics and robustness. M-estimation, influence function, bootstrap, jackknife, generalized additive models, smoothing techniques, penalty functions, projection pursuit, CART.
  • Syllabus for BIOSTAT885
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Peter Xuekun Song

BIOSTAT895: Analysis of Multivariate Categorical Data

  • Graduate level
  • Residential
  • Fall term(s) for residential students;
  • 3 credit hour(s) for residential students;
  • Instructor(s): Peter Xuekun Song (Residential);
  • Not offered 2024-2025
  • Prerequisites: Biostat 651 and Biostat 695 or Perm. Instr.
  • Description: Probability models for two-way tables; multi-factor, multi-response framework; product multinomial distribution theory; Taylor series estimates of variance, weighted least squares and Wald statistics; constraint equations; models for characterizing interactions; step-wise variable selection; factorial designs with multinomial responses; repeated measurement experiments; log-linear models; paired-choice and bioassay experiments; life-table models.
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Peter Xuekun Song