Stats 406 (Introduction to Statistical Computing) final research project

In order to run a python script scripts/script.py, run the command python2 -m scripts/script from within the python directory.

Some relevant scripts:

• num_landfall.py counts how many hurricanes made landfall in a given dataset
• only_early_test.py learns a model from a training dataset, and then computes a test dataset.
• similar_hurricanes.py plots out similar hurricanes according to the similarity metric.
• simulation_proportion_landfall.py compares how the different ways of adding noise affect the number of landfalls.
• noise_test_script.py plots out the effects of the different ways of adding noise.
• what_dimension_best.py learns a model for each dimension in a range, and graphs the accuracy of each one by dimension.

To separate out the datasets further, you can use the shell scripts in the data folder.

• ./get_year.sh [year] will create a new data file containing just information for that year.
• ./get_years.sh [start] [end] will create a new data file containing information from the start year through the end year.

Some essential python packages:

• numpy
• sklearn
• matplotlib.pyplot
• mpl_toolkits.basemap
• statsmodels