Tentative Syllabus
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Topics |
Supplementary Material and Work Due |
Monday, August 20 |
L01: Developing your common sense
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John McDonald's Free Online Text: Handbook of Biological Statistics
Standard references: Biometry by Sokal and Rohlf; Biostatistical Analysis by Zar
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Wednesday, August 22 |
L02: Intuitive p-values
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Data and Code for Lecture 2
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Friday, August 24 |
L03: Various versions of the t-test.
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Saturday, August 25 |
Computer Lab BLBH 118
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Lab 1: Introduction to R (and Minitab and...)
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Monday, August 27 |
L04: Assumptions
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Wednesday, August 29 |
L05: Log Transformations
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Homework 01
Data for Lecture 5
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Friday, August 31 |
L06: Nonparametric procedures for comparing two distributions
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Data and Code for Lecture 6
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Monday, September 3 |
LABOR DAY
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Wednesday, September 5 |
L07: Bootstrapping and Permutation tests
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Data and Code for Lecture 7
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Friday, September 7 |
L08: Paired Samples
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Mini-project 1
Data for Lecture 8
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Saturday, September 8 |
Computer Lab BLWY 125
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Lab 2:
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Monday, September 10 |
L09: Guide to comparing two samples
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Wednesday, September 12 |
L10: One-way ANOVA theory
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Homework 02
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Friday, September 14 |
L11: One-way ANOVA examples
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Data for Lecture 11
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Monday, September 17 |
Class cancelled: I am at a conference out of the country. Alternative instruction: lab Saturday, August 25, 10:10 am and/or lecture notes about the analysis of ratios Supplemental 1: Analysis of Ratios
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Wednesday, September 19 |
Class cancelled: I am at a conference out of the country. Alternative instruction: lab Saturday, September 8, 10:10 am and/or lecture matrial about Bayes's Theorem. Supplemental 2: Bayes's Theorem and the Existence of God
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Friday, September 21 |
Class cancelled: I am at a conference out of the country. Alternative instruction: lab Saturday, September 29, 10:10 am. Better Explained: Bayes's Theorem
Drug Testing Example at the bottom of the Wikipedia entry
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Monday, September 24 |
L12: ANOVA alternatives
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Welch's ANOVA Macro
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Wednesday, September 26 |
L13: Making Comparisons after ANOVA
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Homework 03
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Friday, September 28 |
Class cancelled: The administration asked me to represent IU at a statewide meeting about quantitative reasoning. Alternative instruction: lab Saturday, November 10, 10:10 am.
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Saturday, September 28 |
Computer Lab BLBH 118
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Lab 3:
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Monday, October 1 |
L14: Multiple comparisons
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Data for Lecture 14
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Wednesday, October 3 |
L15: Simple linear regression I
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Mini-project 2
Data for Lecture 15
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Friday, October 5 |
L16: Simple linear regression II
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Pearson's Data on Father and Son heights
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Monday, October 8 |
L17: Outliers and leverage points
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Wednesday, October 10 |
L18 Regression diagnostics
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Homework 04
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Friday, October 12 |
FALL RECESS
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Monday, October 15 |
L19: 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 17 |
L20: 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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Mini-project 3
Consumption of Spirits in the United Kingdom
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Friday, October 19 |
L21: Weighted regression
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Data for Lecture 21
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Monday, October 22 |
L22: Multiple linear regression I - Theory
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Wednesday, October 24 |
L23: Multiple linear regression II - Beginning Diagnostics
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Data for Lecture 23
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Friday, October 26 |
L24: Multiple linear regression III - More Diagnostic Tools
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Monday, October 29 |
L25: Regression and ANOVA
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Wednesday, October 31 |
L26: Interactions in Regression
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Data for Lecture 26
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Friday, November 2 |
L27: General Linear Models
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Research proposal and data due
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Monday, November 5 |
L28: Model selection I
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Wednesday, November 7 |
L29: Model Selection II
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Homework 05
Data for Lecture 29
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Friday, November 9 |
L30: 2(+)-way ANOVA
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Data for Lecture 30
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Saturday, November 10 |
Computer Lab BLBH 118
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Lab 4: Discrete data analysis in R
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Monday, November 12 |
L31: 2(+)-way ANOVA without replication
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Data for Lecture 31
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Wednesday, November 14 |
L32: Random effects and experimental design
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Mini-project 4
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Friday, November 16 |
L34: Categorical responses: test for equal proportions and odds ratios
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Thanksgiving Recess November 19-23 |
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Monday, November 26 |
L35: Categorical responses: Chi-square tests and Fisher's exact test
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Wednesday, November 28 |
L36: Mantel-Haenszel test
L36: Beamer
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Progress report due
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Friday, November 30 |
L37: Logistic regression - theory
L37: Beamer
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Monday, December 3 |
L38: Logistic regression - examples
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Data for Lecture 38
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Wednesday, December 6 |
L39: Logistic regression - diagnostics
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Homework 06
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Friday, December 9 |
L40: Logistic regression with binomial counts Notes Not Available
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Data for Lecture 40
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Written Project due Friday, December 14 by 12:15 pm |