STA442/1008: Methods of Applied Statistics, Winter 2002

University of Toronto in Mississauga, Fall 2001

MWF 1:10 - 2:00 in Room 3101, South Building

Office hours The next office hours will be Monday April 29th, 10:30-1:30.

• Final Exam Information
• Course Outline
• Assignments
  1. Assignment 1: For Quiz 1 on Fri. Jan 19th
  2. Assignment 2 REVISED: For Quiz 2 on Fri. Jan 26th
  3. Assignment 3 For Quiz 3 on Fri. Feb. 8th
  4. Assignment 4 For Quiz 4 on Fri. March 15th. You will need the file bunnies.dat
  5. Assignment 5 For Quiz 5 on Fri. April 5th. You may want to use the files sasfiles.txt and scode.txt.
• Class notes
  • Class Notes: Complete Set (1.2 MB)
  • Chapter 1 (Version 2 - added a little more detail to discussion of correlation, fixed an error in the answer to Sample Question 1.2.1, added scatterplots showing various correlations, fixed some spelling errors.)
  • Chapter 2 (Version 2 - Fixed some spelling errors.)
  • Chapter 3: Revised
  • Chapter 4
    1. Part One
    2. Part Two
    3. Part Three
    4. Part Four
    5. Part Five
    6. The whole thing (97 pages) spell checked and slightly cleaned up.
  • Chapter 5: Multivariate and Repeated Measures. You are not responsible for this material and it will not be mentioned in class. It is provided just for your entertainment.
  • Chapter 6
    1. Part One
    2. Part Two
    3. Part Three
  • Chapter 7
    1. Part One
    2. Part Two
• R software
  • Download your own free copy, or get more information.
  • Free manuals
• Online software handouts: unix, SAS, S (including R), etc.
• SAS programs used in lecture. You may want to download this file and keep a copy.
• S code used in lecture. You may want to download this file and keep a copy.
• Reserve materials in the Library
  • Applied statistics and the SAS programming language by Ronald P. Cody, Jeffrey K. Smith.
  • Permutation tests : a practical guide to resampling methods for testing hypotheses by Phillip Good.
  • An introduction to the bootstrap by Brad Efron and Robert J. Tibshirani
  • The new S language : a programming environment for data analysis and graphics / Richard A. Becker, John M. Chambers, Allan R. Wilks. This is a combination of tutorial and manual.
  • SAS Manuals
    • SAS Language (mostly the data step)
    • SAS Procedures (simple proc step procedures, including all the non-statistical ones, like proc print)
    • SAS/STAT User's Guide, Vol. I (Statistical procedures)
    • SAS/STAT User's Guide, Vol. II (More Statistical procedures)
  • SAS Guides
    • SAS Introductory Guide
    • SAS system for regression
    • SAS system for linear models (Factorial ANOVA with proc glm; don't use proc anova)
    • SAS system for mixed models (proc mixed)
• Link to UTM Statistics home page.

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