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Randomization and Simulation Methods

Video playlist on YouTube

Units

  1. Core concepts: In what ways is random sampling useful for data analysis?
    • Introduction
    • Why Monte Carlo methods?
    • Distributions and null models
    • Use cases
  2. Sampling from data sets: foundations
    • The Jackknife
    • The Bootstrap
    • Randomization
  3. Sampling from data sets: complex designs
    • Complex models
    • Beyond traditional models
    • Parallel processing in R
    • Parallel processing with Rscript
  4. Sampling from data sets: decision errors and predicting new data
    • False positives
    • False negatives
    • Cross-validation
  5. Simulating data for inference
    • Introduction to simulation modeling
    • Simulating null distributions
    • Approximate Bayesian computation
    • Genetic algorithm