| Week |
Topic |
| W1: |
Brief review of topics
relevant to our course, students should have already covered much of
this material elsewhere. Inference for the mean of a population. Review of
SAS commands Reading Assignment: chapter 5 - sections 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 |
| W2: |
Hypothesis testing on averages. Inference on two population means: two paired
samples. Reading Assignment: sections 5.5, 5.6, 5.7 in chapter 5.
Sections 6.4, 6.5 in chapter 6 |
| W3: |
Inference on two population means: two
independent samples. Normality and non-parametric tests. Reading
Assignment: sections 6.1, 6.2, 6.3 and 6.6 in chapter 6 |
| W4: |
Linear
regression. Reading Assignment: chapter 11 |
| W5: |
More details on linear regression. Multiple
regression. Reading Assignment: sections 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4
chapter 12 |
| W6: |
Regression, residuals, model diagnostics.
Reading Assignment: sections 12.5, 12.6, 12.7, 12.9 in chapter 12 |
| W7: |
Model selection
methods Reading Assignment: chapter 13 |
| W8: |
Non linear regression Reading Assignment:
Notes |
| W9: |
Analysis of
variance models Reading Assignment: sections 8.1, 8.2, 8.3,
8.4 in chapter 8 |
| W10: |
Further topics on
analysis of variance. Review for final. Reading Assignment:
sections 8.6, 8.7 in chapter 8 |
