Statistics 403
Fall 2000
Instructor: W. Robert Stephenson
327 Snedecor Hall Phone: 294-7805
email: wrstephe@iastate.edu
website: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~wrstephe/stat403.html
Office Hours: MWF 10:00 to 10:50
Fall 2000 MTW 1:10 to 2:00
and by appointment
Lecture: TR 3:10 to 4:00 Sweeney 1160
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:
Tentative Dates Material Text
T Aug. 22 Introduction and motivating example Chapter 1
R Aug. 24 - R Aug. 31 Review of statistical inference
T Sep. 5 - R Sep. 7 One sample: sign test/C.I. Chapter 3
T Sep. 12 - T Sep. 19 One sample: signed rank test/C.I. Chapter 3
R Sep. 21 Two sample: median test
T Sep. 26 Two sample: Tukey's pocket test
R Sep. 28 - R Oct. 5 Two sample: Rank sum test/C.I. Chapter 4
EXAM 1 - Tuesday, October 10
R Oct. 12 Transformations
T Oct. 17 - R Oct. 19 k sample: Kruskal-Wallis Chapter 4
T Oct. 24 - T Oct. 31 Two sample: tests of scale/C.I. Chapter 5
R Nov. 2 - T Nov. 14 Association Chapter 7
EXAM 2 - Thursday, November16
M Nov. 20 - F Nov. 24 THANKSGIVING BREAK
T Nov. 28 - R Nov. 30 Regression: Least squares and rank Chapter 7
T Dec. 5 k related samples Chapter 7
R Dec. 7 Tests for randomness Chapter 8
FINAL EXAM - Week of December 11-15
Grading: Letter grades including plus/minus will be given
based on performance on homework assignments and exams. The
point distribution is as follows:
Exam 1 100
Exam 2 100
Final Exam 120
Homework 80
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Total 400