Project Ideas for 3^rd and 4^th Year Students:

1: Statistics with R

R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It provides a wide variety of statistical and graphical techniques. R is available as Free Software under the terms of the Free Software Foundation's GNU General Public License in source code form. It compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms and Windows.

The aim of this project is to develop a package using the graphical techniques in R to illustrate statistical techniques.

R is a free downloadable statistical and graphical system. A description of some of the main features of R are given in Chapters 1, 2 and 3 of

Probability with R: An Introduction with Computer Applications by Jane M. Horgan (2008) and summarised in Notes on R,

More than one set of students may choose this project. You will need to be comfortable with probability and R.

2. Statistics Interactive:

Develop a teaching tool for parts of the 2^nd year Probability Course

The project will concentrate on

• Illustration of discrete distributions and their applications
• Illustration of the limiting distributions for various parameter values
• Process control

It will be an add on to Statistics Interactive already available on the web.

More than one set of students may choose this project. The only requirement is that you are comfortable with statistics