The semester project is to replicate and extend a Monte Carlo study reported in the statistical literature.
The project requires that you identify two articles in the literature that use Monte Carlo studies (in any area of statistics) and make a brief report on each of the articles. For one of the articles, you will then replicate a part of the Monte Carlo study and extend it. You will write a report introducing the problem you studied, describing the Monte Carlo experiment, reporting conclusions you reached, and comparing your results with those in the paper you replicated and extended. Your final paper may be similar in structure to that of the published paper, except yours will emphasize the Monte Carlo study; and, especially if the published paper emphasized other issues, such as extensive analytical results, your paper will be more focused.
After you have made a first draft of your report, a fellow student will review it and write a referee's report. (Likewise, you will review a fellow student's first draft.) Each reviewer will make a brief class presentaion on the review.
Finally, you will prepare a final version of the paper and make a class presentaion on it.
If you would like, you can put information about your project (and about yourself) in your WWW page in your directory in
/usr/local/etc/httpd/htdocs/csi779 You only need to know a little HTML to do this.The project is to be completed according to a sequence of milestones:
Project will be graded on
James Gentle, jgentle@gmu.edu