Statistics 4164 - Fall 2009

Statistical Methods III

 

 

Department of Statistics University of Central Florida

 

 

 Announcement:  

 Description of the Course:         The goal of this course is to continue further study of regression analysis. Topics to be covered include: Simple/Multiple Linear Regression Models (with emphasis on model diagnostics, model selection etc.), ANOVA (including multiple comparisons, ANCOVA), plus an introduction to repeated measure analysis, logistic regression, and poisson regression if time allows.

Statistical Computing:  R, a free version of S/S+, is the primary statistical computing package for this class. It can be downloaded from the website of CRAN. The following webpage contains excellent help information of R, including several useful manuals, and FAQ about R: http://stat.ethz.ch/R-alpha/.  Also, you will need the Acrobat Reader  in order to view pdf files.  

Syllabus and the grading policy:

Range	94+	93-90	89-87	86-83	82-80	79-77	76-73	72-70	69-67	66-63	62-60	59-0
Grade	A	A-	B+	B	B-	C+	C	C-	D+	D	D-	F

The following links will be added as they become available:

 Sample Midterms and Projects

• Note that you need bring Probability Distribution Tables to each exam.
• Sample Midterm Exam 1 and the Solutions
• The 1987 Baseball Salary data and the 1992 Baseball Salary data;
• First Computer Project (Due on 10/26/2009, Mon)
• Here is the data set for Project #1: tampalms.dat
• Take-Home Exam (Due in Monday's class) Here is the PDF version.
• The quasar data set used for the Take-Home Exam.
• Computer Project II (Due on 12/07/2009, Mon.)

 

 Homework assignments and Class Handouts:

 

Topic	Assignment	Class Handouts	R Codes	Data Sets
1	Homework 1		T-TEST.R
2	Homework 2		SLR.R
3	Homework 3	MLR with Real Estate Data	Real-Estate.R	realestate.dat
4	Homework 4	Model Selection
5	Homework 5	Model Diagnostics	Baseball-1987.R
6	Homework 6	One-Way ANOVA     Two-Way ANOVA ANCOVA   Comparing Two Straight Lines	dummy-variables.R
7	Homework 7	Multiple Comparisons

 

 Computing Handouts

       The newest version of R (Download R 2.9.2 for Windows)  is available from CRAN official website: http://cran.r-project.org/

1. Introduction to R
2. Probability Distributions and CI for Correlation
3. Simple Linear Models and the related R program.
4. Multiple Linear Regression Models. The 1987 baseball salary data are available from the above link.
5. Model Diagnostics
6. Box-Cox Transformation
7. Regression with Dummy Variables
8. Choosing  the Best Regression Model