Instructor:     W. Robert Stephenson
                327 Snedecor Hall   Phone: 294-7805  
                email: wrstephe@iastate.edu
                homepage:  www.public.iastate.edu/~wrstephe 

Office Hours:  MTWTh 9:00 to  9:50 am
Fall 2007      MT    1:10 to  2:00 pm
               and by appointment

Lecture: LAST OFFERED BY STEPHENSON FALL 2000

Required Text:  Nonaparametric Methods for Quantitative Analysis, 3rd Ed.
                by Jean E. Gibbons, American Science Press, 1997.

Objectives:     The objective of the course is to introduce students
                to statistical procedures and techniques that can be
                used when data do not meet distributional (normal
                theory) assumptions.

• syllabus

• Ages of patients at two clinics

• Permeability constant for a membrane

• Daily high temperature

• One Sample Review

• A Primer on Normal Probability Plots

• Mood's Median Test and Tukey's Quick (Pocket) Test

• Triglyceride levels in Rh(D)+ and Rh(D)- patients treated with RhoGAM

• Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon test applied to clinic data

• Kruskal-Wallis test applied to fish data

• Multiple comparisons for dial glow data.

• Siegel-Tukey test applied to heart rate data.

• Fligner test applied to heart rate data.

• Formulas for the second exam (2-sample location, 2-sample scale, k-sample location, rank correlation.

• Regression example

• Assignment 1 due Thursday, September 7. Problems 3.28 (use binomial tables to find a P-value), 3.31 (use the normal approximation with the correction for continuity to find an approximate P-value, 3.32 (use both the binomial tables and the normal approximation with the correction for continuity to find a P-value and an approximate P-value, respectively), 3.1, 3.3, 3.5 from the text.

• Solution to Assignment 1.

• Assignment 2 due Thursday, September 14.

• Solution to Assignment 2.

• Assignment 3 due Tuesday, September 26.

• Solution to Assignment 3

• Assignment 4 due Tuesday, October 3.

• Solution to Assignment 4

• Assignment 5 due Thursday, October 19.

• Solution to Assignment 5

• Assignment 6 due Tuesday, October 31.

• Solution to Assignment 6

• Assignment 7 due Thursday, November 9.

• Solution to Assignment 7

• Assignment 8 due Thursday, November 30.

• Solution to Assignment 8

• Assignment 9 We will go over in class Thursday, December 7.

• Solution to Assignment 9