James E. Gentle

Some courses I teach at George Mason University

Undergraduate Courses

• Stat 362 Introduction to Computer Statistical Packages
  This course is an introduction to SAS for data manipulation and elementary statistical methods.
  I teach this course every fall.
  Fall 03
  Fall 02
  Fall 01
  Fall 00
  Fall 99
  

Graduate Courses

• CSI 701 (formerly 801) / IT 814 Foundations of Computational Science
  This course is taught every spring.
  Spring 00
  Fall 99
  Fall 98 (with John Wallin)
  Fall 95

• CSI 703 (formerly 803) / IT 875 Scientific and Statistical Visualization
  This course is taught every spring.
  Spring 99 (with Dan Carr)
  

• CSI 771 / Stat 751 Computational Statistics
  This course covers computationally-intensive methods in statistics and the numerical techniques to implement the statistical methods.
  I teach this course in the fall of even-numbered years.
  Fall 02
  Fall 00
  Fall 98
  Fall 96
  Fall 94

• CSI 779 / Stat 789 Topics in Computational Statistics
  I offer this course often in the spring, sometimes as a reading course.
  The topics vary from year to year. I solicit suggestions from students for future topics.
  Spring 03: Robust Statistical Methods
  Spring 02: Topics in Analysis of Financial Data
  Spring 01: Statistical Methods in Finance
  Spring 00: Optimization Methods in Statistics
  Spring 99: Monte Carlo Methods
  Spring 95: Data Partitioning and Resampling

• CSI 972 / IT 972 and CSI 973 / IT 973 Mathematical Statistics I and II
  The first course in this two-course sequence is taught in the fall of odd-numbered years, and the second course is taught in the spring of even-numbered years.
  Fall 03 CSI 972 / IT 972
  Spring 04 CSI 973 / IT 973
  

  Fall 01 CSI 972 / IT 972
  Spring 02 CSI 973 / IT 973
  

• CSI 979 / IT 979 Advanced Topics in Computational Statistics
  The topics vary from year to year. I solicit suggestions from students for future topics.
  Spring 96: Generalized Additive Models
  Spring 94: Multivariate Density Estimation

Seminars and Colloquia

• CSI 991 Seminar in Computational Statistics (usually with C. D. Sutton)
  (formerly CSI 970)
  Spring 04: Data Mining
  Fall 03: Data Mining
  Summer 03: Logistic Regression
  Spring 03: New (and Old) Ways of Looking at Regression, continued
  Fall 02: New (and Old) Ways of Looking at Regression
  Spring 02: Statistical Learning
  Fall 01: Classification and Regression Trees; CART and MARS
  Summer 01: More on Robust Statistical Methods
  Spring 01: Robust Statistical Methods
  Spring 96: Alternatives to Least Squares II
  Fall 95: Alternatives to Least Squares
  Spring 95: Fitting Generalized Additive Models

Research