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stat 557

Categorical Data: Methods for Counts and Proportions

Fall 2012

Tuesday and Thursday 8:00–9:20. Pearson 1106

Heike Hofmann, hofmann@iastate.edu.
Office hours by arrangement. Snedecor 2413

Syllabus

Course syllabus describing objectives, testbook, software used, topics and assessment.

Lectures and timetable

Date	Lecture and Resources	Homework/Deadlines
Review & Categorical Basics
Aug 21	Distributions for Categorical Data; Confidence Intervals
Aug 23	Binomial, Multinomial & Poisson; Types of Sampling
Aug 28	Lab: Contingency Tables & Graphical Displays
Aug 30	Summary Statistics for Contingency Tables: Odds Ratios, & Mosaics	Assignment I, due Sep 13
Sep 4	Tests for independence, Local Odds Ratios; Concordance and Discordance;
Theory of Generalized Linear Models
Sep 6	Introduction to GLMs; GLMs for Binomial Response
Sep 11	Diagnosing GLMs; Fitting GLMS: Newton Raphson Deviance
Sep 13	Lab meeting	Assignment II, due Sep 27
Binomial & Multinomial Response
Sep 18	Inference for Logistic Regression
Sep 20	Model selection & diagnostics for Logistic regression
Sep 25	Multinomial Logistic Regression
Sep 27	Proportional Odds Logistic Regression
Loglinear Models
Oct 2	Loglinear Models
Oct 4	Midterm I
Oct 9	Lab: Loglinear Models
Oct 11	Relationship between Loglinear Models and Logistic Regression, Association Models	Assignment III, due Oct 25
Oct 16	Association Models
Oct 18	Poisson Rate Regression	Project Information
Matched Pairs Models
Oct 23	Ordinal and Nominal Responses in Matched Pair Models
Oct 25	Symmetry, Quasi-Symmetry & Quasi-Independence
Oct 30	Lab: Models for Squared Data
Nov 1	Bradley Terry Models
Models for Longitudinal Data
Nov 6	Repeated Measures Models
Nov 8	Project Discussion in the lab
Other Topics
Nov 13	Classification Trees	Final Project: Draft Write-up due
Nov 15	Forests, Neural Networks
Nov 20/22	Thanksgiving Week
Nov 27	Lab: Repeated Measures: GLMM
Nov 29	Lab: Repeated Measures
Dec 4	Project Presentations	Give Feedback
Dec 6	Project Presentations	Give Feedback
Dec 14	Final Exam Time: 7:30 am - 9:30 am