Tentative Syllabus
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Date |
Topics |
Supplementary Material and Work Due |
Monday, August 30 |
Developing your common sense
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John McDonald's Free Online Text: Handbook of Biological Statistics
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Wednesday, September 1 |
Intuitive p-values
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Data and Code for Lecture 2
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Friday, September 3 |
Various versions of the t-test.
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Monday, September 6 |
Assumptions
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Wednesday, September 8 |
Log Transformations
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Data for Lecture 5
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Friday, September 10 |
Nonparametric procedures for comparing two distributions
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Data and Code for Lecture 6
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Monday, September 13 |
Bootstrapping and Permutation tests
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Mini-project 1
Data and Code for Lecture 7
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Wednesday, September 15 |
Paired Samples
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Data for Lecture 8
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Friday, September 17 |
Guide to comparing two samples
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Monday, September 20 |
One-way ANOVA theory
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Wednesday, September 22 |
One-way ANOVA examples
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Data for Lecture 11
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Friday, September 24 |
ANOVA alternatives
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Welch's ANOVA Macro
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Monday, September 27 |
Making Comparisons after ANOVA
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Mini-project 2
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Wednesday, September 29 |
Multiple comparisons
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Data for Lecture 14
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Friday, October 1 |
Simple linear regression I
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Data for Lecture 15
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Monday, October 4 |
Simple linear regression II
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Pearson's Data on Father and Son heights
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Wednesday, October 6 |
Outliers and leverage points
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Friday, October 8 |
Regression diagnostics
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Monday, October 11 |
Transformations and regression
A cautionary note on the statistical analysis of allometric relationships.
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Bird heart rate and egg mass data from Tazawa et al. 2001
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Wednesday, October 13 |
Serial correlation
To compute the significance of the serial correlation you need the table in Durbin's and Watson's paper:
Tables for assessing the significance of the Durbin and Watson Statistic
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Consumption of Spirits in the United Kingdom
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Friday, October 15 |
Weighted regression
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Data for Lecture 21
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Monday, October 18 |
Multiple linear regression I - Theory
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Mini-project 3
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Wednesday, October 20 |
Multiple linear regression II - Beginning Diagnostics
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Data for Lecture 23
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Friday, October 22 |
Multiple linear regression III - More Diagnostic Tools
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Monday, October 25 |
Regression and ANOVA
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Wednesday, October 27 |
Interactions in Regression
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Data for Lecture 26
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Friday, October 29 |
General Linear Models
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Monday, November 1 |
Class canceled - to be made up later in the term.
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Wednesday, November 3 |
Model selection I
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Research proposal and data due
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Friday, November 5 |
Model Selection II
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Data for Lecture 29
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Monday, November 8 |
2(+)-way ANOVA
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Mini-project 4
Data for Lecture 30
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Wednesday, November 10 |
2(+)-way ANOVA without replication
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Data for Lecture 31
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Friday, November 12 |
Random effects and experimental design
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Monday, November 15 |
Categorical responses: test for equal proportions and odds ratios
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Wednesday, November 17 |
Categorical responses: Chi-square tests and Fisher's exact test
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Friday, November 19 |
Mantel-Haenszel test
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Monday, November 22 |
Help with Projects Day
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Mini-project 5 (Due by 11:59 pm Tuesday, November 23rd by e-mail.)
Mini-project 5 with a reduced data set |
Wednesday, November 24 |
Thanksgiving Break
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Friday, November 26 |
Thanksgiving Break
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Monday, November 29 |
Logistic regression - theory
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Wednesday, December 1 |
Logistic regression - examples
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Progress report due
Data for Lecture 38
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Friday, December 3 |
Logistic regression - diagnostics
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Monday, December 6 |
Logistic regression with binomial counts Notes Not Available
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Data for Lecture 40
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Wednesday, December 8 |
Extra-binomial variation Notes Not Available
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Mini-project 6 (due Monday of Finals week)
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Friday, December 10 |
Ratios: Notes Not Available
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Written Project due Friday, December 17 by 12:15 pm |