STA 442/2101 Fall 2016 Home Page

STA 2101/442: Methods of Applied Statistics

University of Toronto, Fall 2016

Lecture Friday 2:10-5:00 in Sidney Smith 2117

Note: This page is under construction, and will be updated frequently throughout the term.

Office hours Wednesday Dec. 7th from 11-1 will be in Room 6004, Sidney Smith Hall. The location of office hours on Tuesday Dec. 13th 11-1 is yet to be determined.

Information About the Final Exam including the data sets.

Course Outline
Formula Sheet
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- Computing Resources: Information and Links.
- Assignments
  1. Assignment One (Mostly review): Quiz on Friday Sept. 30th. Bring a calculator.
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  2. Assignment Two: Quiz on Friday Oct. 7th.
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  3. Assignment Three: Quiz on Friday Oct. 14th.
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  4. Assignment Four: Quiz on Friday Oct. 21st.
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  5. Assignment Five: Quiz on Friday Oct. 28th. Bring a calculator.
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  6. Assignment Six: Quiz on Friday Nov. 4th.
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  7. Assignment Seven: Quiz on Friday Nov. 11th.
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  8. Assignment Eight: Quiz on Friday Nov. 18th.
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  9. Assignment Nine: Quiz on Friday Nov. 25th.
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  10. Assignment Ten: Quiz on Friday Dec. 2nd.
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- Lecture Overheads
  1. Introduction to R
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  2. Statistical Introduction
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  3. Non-central chi-squared
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  4. Large-sample tools
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  5. Random Vectors
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  6. Multivariate Normal
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  7. Regression Part One
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  8. Regression with R, Part One
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  9. Omitted Variables and Instrumental Variables
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  10. Regression Part Two
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  11. Residual Diagnostics
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  12. Residual Diagnostics with R
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  13. Tubes with R
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  14. Variance-stabilizing transformations and weighted least squares
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  15. Breaking Rocks with R
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  16. Permutation and Randomization Tests
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  17. Randomization Tests with R
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  18. Bootstrap
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  19. Bootstrap with R
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  20. Factorial Analysis of Variance
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  21. Factorial Analysis of Variance with R
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  22. Power for fixed-effects F-tests
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  23. Power with R
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  24. Repeated measures
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  25. Repeated measures with R
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- Textbooks: These are available in PDF format free of charge. The texts are mostly for background reading in case you need some review, or you want to go beyond what is covered in lecture.
  - Linear models with R (2009) by J. Faraway.
  - Linear models in statistics (2008) by A. C. Renscher and B. G. Schaalje. A strong masters level regression text.
  - Statistical models (2003) by A. C. Davison. This is the place to look if you want the real truth about almost any applied statistical topic.
  - Introduction to R by Venables, Smith and others. This free 100 page document is very helpful if you plan to do serious work with R.
All course materials prepared by Jerry are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Source code is available above.