Links to Course Notes (with summary of topics):

Notes 12/02/03    Student Presentations:    Ping Bai,  Amit Panalkar,  Myunghee Lee,  Lingsong Zhang

Notes 11/25/03    Student Presentations:    Vivek Sawant,  Juhyun Park,  Xuxin Liu, Sushant Rewaskar

Notes 11/18/03    (More Heavy Tails to LRD controversies:  log-normal gives LRD & variable heavy tails give LRD)  Student Presentations:    Alok Sriram,  Elizabeth Shamseldin

Notes 11/11/03    (Long Range Dependence, Zooming Autocorrelation & SiZer)  Student Presentations:    Jay Aikat,  Arka Ghosh

Notes 11/4/03  (SAMSI Distinguished Lecture  -   Guest Lecture by Michele Weigle, UNC Computer Science, NS Overview)

Notes 10/28/03    (Lognormal mixtures, Overview of Conventional time Series Analysis, Long range dependence, Check of Gaussian assumption for binned data)

Notes 10/21/03    (Interpretation of log-log CCDF plots, Distributional impact of heavy tails, HTTP response size distributions, fit by Pareto, log normal (physical motivation), Double Pareto Log Normal, mixtures)

Notes 10/14/03    Class cancelled due to SAMSI Sensor Networks Workshop

Notes 10/7/03    (SAMSI Distinguished Lecture - Modelling Philosophy, Overview of Extreme Value Theory, Overview of data views - Q-Q & P-P)

Notes 9/30/03    (Guest Lecture by Geoerge Michailidis, SAMSI & U. Michigan, Internet Tomography)

Notes 9/23/03    (Memoryless view of Start Times, Start on Heavy Tails & LRD, Heavy Tails and Q-Q Analysis, Overview of Extreme Value Theory)

Notes 9/16/03    (Analysis of HTTP Response Start times, SAMSI workshop and materials)

Notes 9/09/03    (Analysis of IP Flow Start times, introduction to statistical smoothing and SiZer)

Notes 9/02/03    (Guest Lecture by Don Smith, UNC Computer Science, on Basics of TCP/IP, the Foundations of Internet Traffic)

Notes 8/26/03    (Overview of SAMSI Program & surrounding events, motivation of statistical analysis of internet traffic, some preliminary visualizations)
 
 

Link to Combined References
 

References
 
 

Course Meetings:

     Time:   Tuesdays. 4:00 - 7:30
     Room:  NISS Classroom    (directions to NISS/SAMSI)
 
 

Course Web Site:

    http://www.samsi.info/marron/Int/SAMSIstat321home.html
 
 
 

Instructor:   J. S. (Steve) Marron
 

Offices:
        T-W-Th:    SAMSI:  223,   685-9353
        M-F:         UNC:  New West 304,  962-2188
 

Email:   marron@email.unc.edu
 

Course Email List: please add yourself,

                    (useful for announcements, such as "notes now posted")
 

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In Box "User Tools",  Choose  "Search for lists"

    Search String:  SAMSIint

    Choose:    "Subscribe"

    (Can also unsubscribe)
 

Course Work / Grading
 

Based on a presentation
 

Presentations:  can be any of (you choose, or I suggest):

    -    a paper by others

    -    your own work
 

Scheduled above.   Time frame 35 minutes   (so 2 = 1 hr 10 minutes)
 

Triangle University Cross Listings:

    Duke:     STA 293

    NCSU:    ST 810R-004

    UNC:      Stat 321