Statistics 4P03/6P03

Advanced Applied Statistics

Dr P.D.M. Macdonald

2002-2003

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Calendar Description

Statistical computing, statistical software packages; working with large data sets; exploratory data analysis; graphical methods; statistical consulting practice.

• Course Outline

Class Schedule

Monday 12:30, Wednesday 13:30, Thursday 13:30, in BSB-B142

Office Hours

Monday 11:30 & 14:30, Wednesday 11:30, Thursday 11:30, other times by appointment.

Assignments

All assignments must be submitted no later than noon on Monday 28 April 2003, the final day of the undergraduate examination period.

• Assignment #1 - A detailed analysis of a Case Study
• Assignment #2 - A consulting Report

Some Exercises

• Exercise #2 - A first look at Autocorrelation
• Exercise #3 - When is "asymptotically chi-squared" good enough?
• Exercise #4 - GLM Examples

Class Notes

• Fitting the Kaplan-Meier Estimate and the Exponential Survival Model
• Fitting a 2 by 2 table as a GLM
• A Classification Tree example
• An example of classification by Logistic Regression
• SAS analysis of paired data
• Cancer data - logistic and loglinear analyses
• Binomial GLM in Splus

Other Resources

• An On-Line Introduction to UNIX
• An Online Splus Tutorial from Dalhousie University
• Insightful Corporation - Vendor of Splus
• StatLib at Carnegie Mellon University Department of Statistics
• Download R - a freeware package with the look and feel of Splus
• R for Beginners - a 31-page introduction to R, in pdf format, and other documents to download.

Other Links

• Statistics Seminars at McMaster
• Statistical Society of Canada / Société statistique du canada
• SORA (Southern Ontario Regional Association of the SSC)
• Archived Case Studies from the Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meetings
• Photos from the SSC 2002 Annual Meeting at Hamilton
• Photos from the SSC 2001 Annual Meeting at Burnaby
• Photos from the SSC 2000 Annual Meeting at Ottawa
• Photos from the SSC 1999 Annual Meeting at Regina
•  My work on mixture distributions
• Photos of the XXth IBC - includes a photo of John Nelder

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