This course, designed for Statisticians and data analysts who perform statistical inference or need to assess uncertainty in their data, covers the basic theory and application of the bootstrap family of procedures with an emphasis on applications. It also illustrates bootstrap for regression and time series procedures. Students should be familiar with introductory statistics, and must have a working installation of the R statistical software package.
Dr. Robert LaBudde
Dr. Robert LaBudde is president and founder of Least Cost Formulations, Ltd., a mathematical software development company specializing in optimization and process control software for manufacturing companies. He has served on the faculties of the University of Wisconsin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Old Dominion University and North Carolina State University. Dr. LaBudde is currently Adjunct Professor of Statistics at Old Dominion University.