Tutorials Friday 11:10-12:00 in IB 245 (This is a room change).
Note: This page is under construction, and will be updated frequently throughout the term.
Final formula sheet is posted. You will not need it with Quiz 10, but you will get a copy with the final exam.
Final exam:
- Monday April 15th, 5pm, DV Gym C
- 3 hours
- Comprehensive, excluding Assignment 1
- 10 questions, extending over 11 pages
- No SAS, but bring a calculator
- Like the quizzes
- Re-do the homework first
- Study using the formula sheet and rules
- Some lecture slides could be made into "show your work" problems.
- Old final exams are provided for your convenience and they may be useful, but they are much less important than the homework. Solutions are not available.
- Office hours for the final
- Tuesday April 9: 11-1
- Thursday April 11: 11-1
- Friday April 12: 10-12
- Monday April 15: 12-2
- Course Outline
- Formulas sheet and identifiability rules: This document will be supplied with the final examination.
- Computing Resources: Information and Links.
- Assignments
- Assignment 1: Quiz on Friday Jan 18th
- Assignment 2: Quiz on Friday Jan 25th (See new formula sheet)
- Assignment 3: Quiz on Friday Feb. 1st
- Assignment 4: Quiz on Friday Feb. 8th
- Assignment 5: Quiz on Friday Feb. 15th
- Assignment 6: Quiz on Friday March 1st
- Assignment 7: Quiz postponed to Tuesday March 12th at the beginning of lecture.
- Assignment 8: Quiz on Friday March 15th
- Assignment 9: Quiz on Friday March 26th at the beginning of lecture (re-scheduled)
- Assignment 10: Quiz on Friday April 5th
- Lecture Overheads
- Overview of the course
- More Linear Algebra
- Random Vectors
- Introduction to regression with measurement error
- Some unix and emacs commands
- Brief Introduction to SAS
- SAS Example One: Read data, means and standard deviations, correlations, ordinary regression with proc reg
- Including measurement error in the regression model: A first try
- Introducing SAS proc calis
- SAS Example Two: Regression with no measurement error using proc calis
- Instrumental variables
- SAS Example Three: Numerical problems arising from non-identifiability
- SAS Example Four: Instrumental variables on the credit card data
- Double Measurement Regression
- SAS Example Five: Double measurement regression on the Body Mass Index (BMI) data
- Introduction to Structural Equation Models in general
- SAS Example Six: Doughnut shop Brand Awareness Study
- OpenOffice.org format (Zipped archive including graphics files)
- Introduction to Sage (Symbolic mathematics software)
- Exploratory Factor Analysis
- SAS Example Seven: Exploratory factor analysis on the twin data and simulated data
- Confirmatory Factor Analysis Part One
- View LaTeX
- Download zip archive with LaTeX code and graphics files.
- Confirmatory Factor Analysis Part Two ("The Truth")
- Identifiability rules: A two-stage approach
- The Pinwheel Model
- View LaTeX
- Download zip archive with LaTeX code and graphics files.
- Apply the rules by looking at pictures
- SAS Example Eight: Diversity
- Open Source Textbooks
- Data analysis with SAS
- Chapter 2: Introduction to unix and SAS
- Textbook home page with the full book and source code.
- Structural equation models
- Appendix A: Background and review
- Appendix B: Symbolic mathmatics with Sage (Part 1)
- Chapter Zero: Final version for this class
- Textbook home page. This has the current version of the full book, which is quite incomplete at present. You are responsible for the individual chapters posted above. The full book will change without notice during the term.
- Data analysis with SAS
- Data sets from homework, lectures and the text. SAS programs from the lectures are also available here.
Except where indicated, all course materials prepared by Jerry are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Source code is available above.