Stat 500 - Fall 2009 - Dr. Philip Dixon

• Coming up:
  • Nov 12: Midterm II for on campus students
    
  • Nov 13/16: No homework because of the midterm
    
  • Nov 12-20: Midterm period for off campus students
    
  • Nov 20: HW 10 due on campus
    
  • Nov 23: HW 10 due off campus

• Last updates: 6 Nov 2009
  • 6 Nov: Posted graphs on model selection concepts. Links are in Information/Copies of graphs not in notes page. the
  • 6 Nov: Posted Friday's lecture
  • 5 Nov: Posted Formula sheet for midterm II
  • 5 Nov: Posted revised HW 8 solution with R answer for question 2c. If you used R, please check against the R answer and see Chuanlong to get that question regraded.
  • 3 Nov: Posted Weds lecture
  • 3 Nov: Posted Tuesday's lab
  • 2 Nov: Posted case study and SAS notes for lab 11.
  • 2 Nov: Posted Monday's lecture
  • 1 Nov: Restored link to Lab 10 notes
  • 19 Oct: My solutions to midterm I are now available.

• Information:
  • Syllabus
  • Copies of graphs not in notes and handouts
  • Assigned readings
  • Links to online optional readings
  • Online tables for various distributions

• Material primarily for off campus students
  • Revised information for connecting to SAS using a Remote Desktop Connection
  • Link to join lecture or lab
  • 2009 Lecture and lab videos
  • Lecture and lab videos from 2005

• Homework:
• Current Homework Assignment, on campus
• Current Homework Assignment, off campus
• All Homework Assignments
• Homework Guidelines
• Homework Solutions
• Data sets and programs
• Data sets
• SAS programs
• R programs (optional)
• Supplemental resources:
• References to extra material
• Introduction to SAS. Includes all material for PC SAS in lab notes, extra material on UNIX SAS and a bit on batch mode (what you would use if you telnet from home).
• Basic SAS PROC steps and Data step programming Taken from my Stat 402 class notes. Examples for this class will be on my Stat 500 web pages.
• How to access SAS, including using remote desktop (From IT group in Stat Dept)
• Version 9.1 online documentation for SAS To get documentation on statistical PROC's, click on the + next to SAS/STAT, then the + next to SAS/STAT User's Guide. After a short wait, you'll get a list of all the PROC's in SAS/STAT. Click the + next to the desired procedure for more information. The syntax section is usually the most helpful to find errors. Other sections provide advice on interpretation. <
• Philip Dixon's 2007 exams
  Notes:
  1) These are provided so you can see the sorts of questions I ask and the typical length of an exam. These are not meant to be practice exams. The .pdf files do not include graphs or pictures of the study designs.
  2) Solutions are not posted. Again, these are not meant to be practice exams.
  • Midterm I
  • Midterm II
  • Final (not yet posted)

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