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Announcements

Final exam 15 Dec at 6 pm, usual room.
New info: HW 6 due date moved back by 1 week.
Office hourse 3-4 Wed 3 Dec are canceled.
Supplimental material now contains material on the hypergeometric distribution, including a calculation of its variance.
The text of the movie question on HW3 says that negatively--reviewed movies are denoted by N. They are actually denoted by C.
An old version of the final is available, with solutions..
Solutions to some old homework questions are available.
I'll lead a tutorial on SAS from 5 to 6 Mon. evening, 15 Sept, SERC 211
We have a TA for the course, Qi Xia, and here office hours are 10-11 Wed, 5-6 Tues. Her office is Hill Center 556.
A midterm exam from last year is available to help students know what format to expect on the exam.
Here is the first exam .
Office hours: Monday, 4:30--5:30, Wednesday 4--5, Monday 2:30--3:30

Course information

Course Information SAS Examples Student Survey

Lectures

Lecture 1 (small format) (sas input) (sas output)
Lecture 2 (small format) (sas input)(sas output)
Lecture 3 (small format) (SPlus input) (SPlus input and output) Check the formula for the confidence interval for the rate estimator in the notes. The version in the notes (which is correct) does not match what some students had in their notes.
Lecture 4 (small format) (sas input) (sas output)
Lecture 5 (small format) (sas input) (sas output)
Lecture 6 (small format) (sas input) (sas output) (The last part of the lecture considered data on car crashes. I'll talk more about this later. SAS code (including an explanation of the variables) may be found at the beginning of the input file for lecture 10, and similarly the output may be found at the beginning of the output file for lecture 10.
Lecture 7 (small format) (output) and the shipping data
Lecture 8 (small format) (sas input) (sas output)
Lecture 9 (small format) (sas input) (sas output)
Lecture 10 (small format)
Lecture 11 (small format) (sas input) (sas output)
Lecture 12 (small format) (sas input) (sas output)
Lecture 13: No new material.

Homeworks

Solutions HW 1, HW 2, with the table , HW 3 with the movie data. HW 4 HW 5 HW 6
Already Assigned
To Be Assigned

Prerequisites

960-484 is presumed. The text, Devore and Peck (1997) Statistics: The Exploration and Analysis of Data Edn. 3 (Belmont, CA: Duxbury Press) is a good start. Background reading for lectures is

Lecture 1: Chapter 5.
Lecture 2: Section 7.3 and Chapter 8.

Supplimentary Materials

Other resources

Data sets including the nickel data , the compressed version of the nickel data set, the description of the continuous Ille-et-Vilaine data missing from the link on the above page. I extracted this from the shar file that you can find at the bottom of the data sets page. The standardized rates for nasal and lung cancer in Wales (Appendix 9 of BDII) is also available.
Another source of data sets that will be used in homework problems.
ICD-9 coding system and the ICD-7 coding system
The death penalty data, the crash data, the prostate data, the ulcer data, the steel data, the bacteria count data, the oil data, and the falls data for one of the homeworks.
Other data sets can be found on the statlib web site.
The British government statistical website.
If you have a hard time reading the pdf files I put up, and are using Windows, you might try downloading gs5.50, a postscript reader that will also read pdf.